Flashnano 2023: Day 3…

Day 3: Write a story whose descriptions rely only on the sense of smell or hearing (or both)


Thanks to *Charmaine Wilkerson for today’s celebrity prompt
and for all the success on her amazing new book!

Charmaine Wilkerson is the author of the novel Black Cake and writer of award-winning flash fiction and microfiction, including How to Make a Window Snake, a novella-in-flash (it’s so good!)

Check out Charmaine’s books and upcoming appearances here:

Website:  https://charmspen.com

Instagram: @charmspen1


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Flashnano 2023: Day 2! Word prompt:

Day 2: Word Prompt: Amoransia


Portuguese amor, love + ânsia, craving.
Pronounced “ah-moh-ran-see-uh.”

n. the melodramatic thrill of unrequited love; the longing to pine for someone you can never have, wallowing in devotion to some impossible person who could give your life meaning by their very absence.

Taken from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

Thanks to Kathy Fish for today’s prompt and for being a flash fiction rock star!

*Kathy Fish’s fifth collection of flash fiction, Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018, is now in its 2nd print run with Matter Press. Check out Kathy’s workshops, newsletter, and other offerings!

Art of Flash Fiction: https://artofflashfiction.substack.com/

Website: kathy-fish.com

Twitter: @kathyfish


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Flashnano 2023: Day 1! It begins….

Day 1: We found a body, but it wasn’t the body we were looking for.

Thanks to Grant Faulkner for today’s prompt and for kicking off Celebrity Flashnano 2023!

*Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. Check out his new flash fiction guide:

The Art of Brevity
https://bookshop.org/a/3456/9780826364739


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August 21-25: Courting the Muse: Radically Refresh and Re-Inspire Your Writing (5 days) SOLD OUT

August 25-27: Revision Weekend Intensive (3 days) 4 spots left

August 28-September 1: Writing Flash Fiction: Pop Lit and Flash Fusion (5 days) SOLD OUT

September 11-22: Flash Flood: Start Your Flash Novel (10 days)

*All workshops are online and asynchronous but I am “live” during the workshop space


COURTING THE MUSE:

FIVE DAYS OF CREATIVE AUDACITY AND RADICAL INSPIRATION TO REFRESH AND RE-INSPIRE YOUR WRITING

August 21-25

$199 

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Where do our best ideas come from? Where is our most fertile soil?  How do we cultivate and plant the right seeds? In this workshop we will allow our unique, sometimes challenging, but always necessary stories to burst and bloom from the heart to the page. We’ll use familiar and even radical methods of releasing narrative seeds, digging beyond first, second, and even third impulses until we find ourselves deep inside our own abundant source of inspiration and face to face with our muse(s).

This will be a 5-day online asynchronous workshop. Leave with up to 5 new drafts and plenty of renewed vigor to take you into the fall. Come with an open mind and be prepared to play!


GET PUBLICATION READY3-DAY REVISION WEEKEND

August 25-27

$175 

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Do you have a story or stories that keep getting rejected? Have you been told you are CLOSE…but not quite? Have you looked at it so long you aren’t sure how to make it better? Do you have a pile of first drafts but you aren’t sure how to take them to the next level? But sometimes you need another pair of eyes and a fresh perspective to see what you haven’t been able to see. In this workshop we will figure out what’s missing? as I guide you and other participants to revise your real works in progress.

This will be a 3-day online workshop format class capped at 8 participants. You will have the opportunity to submit up to 2500 words in a positive, encouraging space.


Pop LitElevating the Mundane to the Miraculous

August 28-September 1

$199 

SOLD OUT

In this workshop we will engage with unexplored or under explored avenues of potential inspiration including pop culture, music, trends, politics, fashion and more to discover unusual angles and back doors into new ideas. We will actively blur the distinctions between low brow and high brow art, and elevate the mundane to the miraculous. We will try a variety of approaches and you will generate up to five original drafts. As always, come with an open mind and expect to play.

This will be a 5-day online asynchronous workshop open to writers with all levels of experience with the flash form.


Flash Flood: Write a Flash Novel (and Launch Your Big Idea)

September 11-22

$299 

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Is 2023 the year you finally write your book? Do you have an idea brewing, but you don’t know where to begin? Is it a flash novel? Novella? Collection? A regular novel or memoir or a million other things? Sometimes not knowing can stop us from getting started. Sometimes the scope of it feels overwhelming.

Flash Flood: Write a Flash Novel is my signature course designed to help you launch your Big Idea. For 10 days we will envision, draft, collage and create the momentum for that large-scale idea you’ve been wanting to tackle. We’ll begin breaking it apart and making friends with the scope of it, and in that process of discovery you will find momentum, insight, excitement, and sometimes a total pivot–that’s okay! For 10 days we’ll get out of our own way–10 days and a flurry of words and ideas and encouragement and camaraderie–and when it’s over you will have the bones (at least) of a longer project and a much better idea of where to go next.


The Flash Novel Mastermind:

a 12-week masterclass and creative community to get your manuscript across the finish line

September 25-December 15

$799 

(monthly payments available)

Whether your book is fiction or creative non-fiction, if you are a dedicated writer, drawing on the skills of flash fiction, this is the long-term container of inspiration, motivation, community and support you have been wanting to bring your ideas to fruition. Flash Flood: Write a Flash Novel is the recommended (though not required) pre-requisite to this mastermind.

GET ALL THE INFORMATION ON THE MASTERMIND HERE:

Email me with questions at nancystohlman@gmail.com

I can’t wait to work with you!