It's funny how many things have changed. There was a forum argument I stumbled upon debating on the proper length of a novel....
These flash stories were fun little palette cleaners where I'd take a painting I found online and see what would happen if I only had a limit I wasn't comfortable writing in. Just a neat little exercise.
Yep. I even wrote a booklet about writing flash fiction: *The Art of Flash Fiction*. I've written dozens of them, and one was even made into a short film. They showed it at Cannes about twenty years ago. The title was "At Confession." At one time, a publisher was publishing a collection every year titled *55 Fiction." Every featured story was exactly 55 words long, not including the title.
Love that you’ve been nailing Heinlein’s Rules #4 this year. It’s inspirational. You mention L. Ron Hubbard. I read some of his pulp westerns and they were really entertaining. Some people can’t get around the scientology bit and it’s a shame. Has nothing to do with his solid pulp fiction.
Thanks Big Philly. I found a whole collection of Hubbard novellas and short stories at a local antique shop for dirt cheap and I'm loving them. He had quite the range with genre.
Back in the day 99 or 100 word stories were flash fiction. :-)
It's funny how many things have changed. There was a forum argument I stumbled upon debating on the proper length of a novel....
These flash stories were fun little palette cleaners where I'd take a painting I found online and see what would happen if I only had a limit I wasn't comfortable writing in. Just a neat little exercise.
Yep. I even wrote a booklet about writing flash fiction: *The Art of Flash Fiction*. I've written dozens of them, and one was even made into a short film. They showed it at Cannes about twenty years ago. The title was "At Confession." At one time, a publisher was publishing a collection every year titled *55 Fiction." Every featured story was exactly 55 words long, not including the title.
Love that you’ve been nailing Heinlein’s Rules #4 this year. It’s inspirational. You mention L. Ron Hubbard. I read some of his pulp westerns and they were really entertaining. Some people can’t get around the scientology bit and it’s a shame. Has nothing to do with his solid pulp fiction.
Thanks Big Philly. I found a whole collection of Hubbard novellas and short stories at a local antique shop for dirt cheap and I'm loving them. He had quite the range with genre.