[stylist] Roberts submission to gratitude prompt and additionalthought/question

[Amy McGarrah]

Hello Robert,
I will see if I can access this month's Writer online because I 
believe there is an article in there that talks about flash 
fiction.  If I can't I have the issue on tape and I'll type up 
the article into braille and mail you to you.
Amy

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net
To: "writers nfb" <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:31:35 -0600
Subject: [stylist] Roberts submission to gratitude prompt and 
additionalthought/question

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

Personal Website-

Adjustment To Blindness And Visual impairment

http//www.thoughtprovoker.info

NFB Writers' Division, president

http://www.nfb-writers-division.net

Chair of the NFB Communications Committee



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