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Flash fiction about flash fiction
So you want to write flash fiction Erotica? What? Why?
A thousand-ish words on writing. Hint: It often starts with a picture…
5 min readMay 11, 2024
How long is a flash fiction? You get a lot of answers, but basically it’s 301-1000 words. 300 or less are micro-fictions, and there are other terms, but I’m not going down to the gnat’s ass on this.
I do memes as well, and I expect those to be under 20 words-ish. But I digress. Here are some reasons to write flash fiction.
- Capturing plot ideas
- Creating the essence of a marketing blurb
- Doing a meme for marketing yourself or a larger story.
- Learning to finish a story. (this is huge)
- Learning to pace the story (words per task)
- Learning iterative storytelling instead of outlining or Fat outlining.
- Develop your writing habit. (this is even more important)
- Learning to working under constraints. (pacing matters)
- Developing a storytelling imagination. (it’s a muscle)
- Writing a book a week? Or a daily blog?
Flash fiction structure
Yes, there is a method/structure/pacing to flash fiction. In the simplest terms, people say, beginning, middle, end, moral/conclusion. But that’s not super…