Flashnano 2023: Now what???

FIRST: YOU ROCK!

SECOND: I will leave all the FlashNano prompts up until the end of the year.
Keep track of all FlashNano 2023 prompts HERE

THIRD: You did it! Now what??

Shall we continue making creative goals and kicking butt together??

Creative Vision Casting 2024

a special 90-minute workshop and strategy session to envision and implement a year of creative clarity, confidence, and courage

LIVE: Friday, January 12 at 11 am MST

Special for FlashNano Participants: 50% off until December 31!

Most of us are so busy, but we never seem to accomplish the things that matter most. The book stays unwritten. The stories remain unpublished. The art remains uncreated. The good idea stays in our head. We think if we had a different life, more money, more time it would be different. Or we imagine when we retire, the kids grow up, etc., then we will finally move towards our own vision.

Which means we spend our lives waiting for our lives to begin. The struggle is real.

I get it. I’ve written 10 books over the last 15 years while working two jobs and raising two children. I felt like I was always fighting for my creative time–I wrote entire books after the kids were in bed; I wrote the final version of Going Short on the train commute back and forth to my university job at CU Boulder. But in the process I learned how to get both clear and realistic about my creative goals and how to strategize my life in a way that aligned with my core values…so that I could actually get things done.

For 10 years I have regularly taken myself through a process of revisiting and re-orienting–not towards blatant productivity, but towards my deepest creative visions. Each time I do this process I learn how to prioritize the creative work and get clear about my values so I don’t spend my life staying busy but not moving the needle on what really matters.

For the first time ever I’ve decided to share this process with my creative community.

In this 90-minute live strategy session, we will brainstorm and identify our creative priorities for 2024 (and beyond), decide how and why to choose, and map out a realistic and empowering plan to move forward. This is NOT a one-size-fits-all-strategy but a living conversation and method of interrogating ourselves and revisiting our creative goals in order to reorient toward what we value most.

So consider this a personal invitation to envision the new year together. We will work, yes, but the work will be fun–creativity is our job after all! So let’s gather for 90 minutes this January and begin 2024 with more creative confidence, clarity, courage, and camaraderie.

See you in January!Use code FlashNano2023 to join us for 50% off

SO PROUD OF YOU ALL!

Flashnano 2023: Day 30!!!!! And…scene.

Day 30: Write a 30-word story

Today’s prompt comes from me!

A HUGE thank you to all my celebrity guests
–how much fun was this???

And a HUGE thank you to all of you–the biggest FlashNano yet!

 Let’s do it again next year!

**AND just for FlashNano folks, a special invitation to join me on January 12 for a brand new live Creative Visioncasting 2024 Workshop: (see below)

Nancy Stohlman is the creator of FlashNano, The Fbomb Reading Series, and the author of six books including After the Rapture (2023), Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (2018), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013), Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (2009), and Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (2020), winner of the 2021 Reader Views Gold Award and re-released in 2022 as an audiobook. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and holds workshops and retreats around the world. Find out more at http://www.nancystohlman.com

CHECK OUT:

LIVE Creative Visioncasting 2024:
a special 90-minute workshop and strategy session to envision and implement a year of creative clarity, confidence, and courage

use code FlashNano2023 to join us for 50% off

Flash Fiction Retreats 2024 Early Announcement Waiting List

SO PROUD OF YOU ALL!!


All 2023 prompts here:

Not already on the FlashNano list? JOIN US

We’ve been writing 30 Stories: 30 Days during the month of November since 2012! 

Flashnano 2023: Day 29 almost there!

Day 29: “I send cards to people and sign them from their casual acquaintances…”

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from a truly one-of-a-kind writer and Fbomb NYC host Paul Beckman!

**AND join me on Friday, December 1, at 6 pm EST for Paul’s Fbomb NYC feature and Virtual Book Launch for Becoming Mirsky
(For the Zoom Link Contact Paul Beckman at: paul@paulbeckman.com)

Paul Beckman’s last flash collection, “Kiss Kiss” was a finalist for the Best Indie Awards for short story collections 2019. Paul had a micro-story selected for the 2018 Norton Anthology New Micro Exceptionally Short Fiction, was one of the winners in the 2016 The Best Small Fictions and his story “Mom’s Goodbye” was chosen as the winner of the 2016 Fiction Southeast Editor’s Prize. Paul was nominated for the 2019 Best Small fiction series and had a story accepted for the 2022 Best of Microfictions. He’s widely published with over 750 stories. 

CHECK OUT:

Paul Beckman’s Website 

Becoming Mirsky


All 2023 prompts here:

Not already on the FlashNano list? JOIN US

We’ve been writing 30 Stories: 30 Days during the month of November since 2012! 

Flashnano 2023: Day 28–One more photo prompt!

Day 28: Find a few moments to look at the image below, and let it sink in–wait until something in the image wants to be written–and write…”

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from the uber talented Vanessa Gebbie and her brand new book 51 and a Half Games and Ideas for Writers!

Vanessa Gebbie is a novelist and award-winning short storyist. Author of two collections: Words from a Glass Bubble and Storm Warning (Salt), her novel The Coward’s Tale (Bloomsbury UK/US) was selected as a UK Financial Times Book of the Year and Guardian readers’ book of the year.

CHECK OUT:

Vanessa Gebbie’s website

51 and a Half Games and Ideas for Writers


All 2023 prompts here:

Not already on the FlashNano list? JOIN US

We’ve been writing 30 Stories: 30 Days during the month of November since 2012!