Writing Tall Tales

In Short Form

"Flash Fiction"

Writing tall tales, whether fiction or nonfiction, can be accomplished in few words.

Flash fiction stories, also known as Immediate Fiction, can be difficult to write. Knowing a little bit about topics of persuasive writing can help you get your point across in succinct style. More and more people have become adept at getting meanings into as few words as possible.

Some submission requirements for Flash Fiction hold the word limit at 1,000. Others ask for 500 words or fewer.

Many Flash pieces are nothing more than writing a character sketch, or writing a character analysis. However, what that character does or doesn’t accomplish drives home the story climax or denouement.

Creating prose in Flash Fiction format requires practice, utilizing excellent analytic skills, knowing what to include in the verbiage, and what would be extraneous. What is included needs to offer more meaning than being a mere sentence conveying action or dialog simply to move the story along. It’s got to have punch.

In creating minimalist prose through the limitations of Flash Fiction, you will see just how adept you’ve become at writing a character analysis or writing character sketches. So if you’ve never tried flash, it’s time to step up to writing as tightly as you can.

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