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Nancy Stohlman answers your common and not-so-common questions about flash fiction.
Today’s question: What’s a piece of advice or revelation that permanently changed how you wrote flash fiction?
Nancy Stohlman answers your common and not-so-common questions about flash fiction.
Today’s question: Must flash fiction have a twist ending?
http://www.nancystohlman.com Nancy Stohlman is the author of Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (releasing October 15, 2020 from Ad Hoc Fiction) as well as multiple books of flash fiction including Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (a finalist for a 2019 Colorado Book Award), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), and The Monster Opera (2013). She is the creator of The Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series and FlashNano in November. Her work has been anthologized in the W.W. Norton New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and the Best Small Fictions 2019. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Happy Tuesday!
Today’s question: Is it acceptable (marketable) to avoid traditional narrative structure, i.e. the rising arc to a climactic end, or can I go off on a tangent?
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