Archive for June, 2010

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

When is a 500 Word Story Not Flash?

Flash fiction has been around awhile, and is established enough to have a fairly substantial Wikipedia entry (see here). My first introduction to flash fiction as its own category came through a UCLA extension class in the fall of 2008. Since then, I’ve been reading and writing flash, and trying to keep track of what’s [...]

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Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Takes Two, and Three, and Four

Knee-deep in rewrites this week, but I’m not complaining. Rewriting is what brings out the best in a piece. I’ve met several writers in the last few days, all just beginning, and had the usual discussion of when do you call yourself a writer. There are so many answers to that question: when you actually [...]

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