[stylist] Roberts submission to gratitude prompt and question

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

Robert,

There's no true hard and fast rules. It's like any writing; once you
have a complete work, whatever that may be, in this case, flash fiction,
then you have your length and mechanics. If you can develop a compelling
story in no more than 800, maybe 1000, words, then you have it. You need
to consider each sentence and really each individual word. Word choice
is what is vital with flash fiction. You really need to be economic with
your words in flash fiction and yet create a fully realized story and
characters. There's no diagram or outline that provides tangible rules
and guidelines. You follow all the same rules for any type of fiction
with the exception that you're creating material that's extremely short.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan

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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:02:16 -0600
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Roberts submission to gratitude prompt and
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What would work better is --- find that article, copy it, then paste it
into an email  and that way we can share it with others! What do you
think? article 

Thanks (and for me, what I need is something on the mechanics! Like what
is enough character or scene or plot development?)