[stylist] Roberts submission to gratitude prompt and additional thought/question

[Eve Sanchez]

Robert, I do not know the rules, but as I also write a lot of flash fiction
I would love this article. Perhaps even if someone thinks they are enough
of an authority, this would be a great sharing lesson. I actually did not
even know I wrote flash fiction until I started sharing and was told (over
and over) that this is what these were. I do not usually go much over 500
words myself, but do not know the rules. I predict that a particular
someone will have the answers we seek though and will then educate us. ;)
Eve       Oh, next question. Would flash fiction really compete well in the
fiction category of our own dear contest? Thanks.

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Robert Leslie Newman <newmanrl at cox.net>wrote:

> Hey you all,
>
>
>
> Do any of us here on STYLIST who knows the ins and outs of writing flash
> fiction? I need to do some studying on what it looks like; what is
> accepted;
> learn whatever else there is to learn about it. (Boy, sure could use an
> article in "Slate & Stylist" on it.) And this is why for me ---   my
> THOUGHT
> PROVOKERS work in part because they are short, basically quick to read and
> then get on to the business of discussion (after hopefully the
> reader/listener has been intellectually provoked on an issue of blindness).
> I'm thinking that my THOUGHT PROVOKERS "TPS" are flash fiction. Toward that
> end, my first THOUGHT PROVOKERS were no more than 100 words in length.
> However, I soon went to 300 as the max. (I was having fun in developing the
> stories, and still felt they were quick enough.) Then --- the last 5  years
> or so, I boosted the word count up to 700; thinking then, and now believing
> 700 max was the upper limit of a quick read. (In fact, the one I sent to
> you
> all, I had played around with it before hitting the send key and jacked the
> length up to 723.)
>
>
>
> What I am thinking and will do now is --- take the corrections and some of
> the suggestions and do a rewrite with the intent of slimming the TP down to
> 700 or less. I have always enjoyed the feeling of success after a rewrite
> in
> which I was able to tighten up a sentence, a paragraph, a story and still
> get the point across and have it remain entertaining. (Think I need to look
> on bookshare for a Hemmingway novel or set of short stories and scope them
> out by reading them on my notetaker with Braille display . [I get so much
> more on formatting, punctuation and sentence structure when I read in
> Braille. Note- I always am reading one book on my notetaker and one via my
> Victor Stream[)
>
>
>
> Any other corrections or suggestions! (There is another 153 to go through!)
>
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
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