num_pages: 46
description: This book is a guide to flash fiction. Short shorts. Condensed prose. Flash fiction doesnt wait for you. Its time is limited. It requires you to start right now right in the middle of the action. As a hybrid form the short short looks a little like fiction and a little like poetry. But flash fiction will be the first to tell you: it has a personality entirely its own. For one the flash tends to be more of a risk-taker than either of its parents. Like a sudden revelation or an unexpected transformational event flash fiction will convince you to do things you might not otherwise do. I think thats why flash fiction works as such a powerful tool for processing lifes difficulties and complexities. The form facilitates the spontaneity necessary for transformation. Youll start in chapter one by considering the question: what is flash fiction? Youll have a chance to think through both the definable parameters and the indefinable qualities of the genre. If youre new to microforms chapter two will help you start writing flash fiction. If youre an experienced author of short shorts you can use chapter two to jumpstart your writing on a stagnant day. Then in chapter three youll learn how to tailor your editing skills to meet the unique demands of flash fiction. Chapter four Quick Inspiration gives you brief insights about the genre to help you shift your perspective and refresh your enthusiasm whenever youre stuck. Chapters five and six give you tools to help you apply what you learned in the previous sections. Chapter five offers sixty flash fiction prompts enough to help you establish a daily practice of writing flash fiction for two months or a weekly practice for a year. Finally chapter six lists sixty publishers of flash fiction so you can start publishing your stories right away. 
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title: The Authors Publish Quick-Start Guide to Flash Fiction
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