Flash-fiction not selected for submission into the competition is now up at The Dormouse Confidential. Those three pieces selected for submission will be posted after results are announced, unless they actually “win”. Please stop by and check out the unselected pieces. They were either skipped because they were weak or didn’t have a quality that [...]
But we write on and on anyway…
Still working on some flash fiction to submit to the competition that ends ina few weeks. I have one strong candidate, but will have to polish off or write another two.
I sat down Friday night with what I thought was a great first line and promptly muffed it. The [...]
Not only am I focusing (perhaps) too much on my novel(la), but I recently discovered an artistic call-out for writers of mini-fiction, so-called “flash fiction”. Minnesota authors only, stories 500 words or less, deadline near the end of April. I am allowed 3 submissions for the competition.
What is the Grand Prize?!? Three will be awarded [...]
into the water, splash!
with a squeal and loud laughter,
she douses her dad
Looking backward, he contemplates:
Do we mostly orchestrate our own tortures, invite them to our door, fling it wide open and beg them to come inside for a spell?
Thinking about it, he isn’t so certain that the troubles he lived through weren’t of his own [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
silent, her feet don’t
disturb thin layers of dust –
some past haunts his thoughts
No more deep thoughts, no more words hawked as wisdom or profundity or other silliness.
No more complexities and abstractions.
Just one goal, the goal I strove for when I began to write again after many years and when the walls began tumbling down:
Essence. [...]