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description: Flash fiction is changing the way we tell stories. Carving away the excess eliminating all but the most essential flash fiction is putting the story through a literary dehydrator leaving the meat without the fat. And it only looks easy. Enter Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction . In this her treatise on the form veteran writer Nancy Stohlman takes us on a flash fiction journey: from creating sculpting revisioning and collecting stories to best practices for writers in any genre. It is both instructive and conversational witty and practical and presented in flash fiction chapters that demonstrate the form as they discuss it. If youre already a flash fiction lover this book will be a dose of inspiration. If you teach flash fiction youll want it as part of your repertoire. And if youre new to the form you might just find yourself ready to begin.
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title: Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction
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