You’ve likely heard of Flash Fiction. Well, there’s also a genre called Flash Non-fiction. True stories, but super short. Think: 100 words-1000 words. I’m actually giving the same workshop twice. The only difference is the day/time, length of the course; and host:
Writers Federation of New Brunswick’s will be four weeks, Saturday mornings from 9-11 AST starting Feb. 7th. Click here for more info.
Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society’s will be six weeks, on Thursday afternoons from 1-3 pm AST, starting Jan. 29. Click here for more info.
Along with flexing your writing muscles, I’ll also provide markets for flash non-fiction each week. I’ve set a personal goal of writing and submitting a flash NF piece once a week for a year. I can’t believe I said that out loud, but you heard it (read it) here. Will start by writing/submitting one flash NF story between Jan 1-7. Eh-yep!
This is a new venture for me and I’ve been having a blast learning how to write short. One thing I’ve learned: it’s not about condensing. It’s about writing with constraints. It’s about use of white space. It’s about building a world without a whole lot of text. It’s about … hair pulling and gnashing of teeth. And grinning a lot. And the rush of nailing a story in 100 words (or maybe 250 or 1000).
I am currently mid-air having been out of the country for 30 days. Which I never planned to do. This journey could easily run 10,000 words. I’m trying to do it in 100 words. Might take me a year to do so. Matters not. Plan to figure it out.
Hope everyone has a joyful December, a Merry Merry, and Happy Hannukah.
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Interested!
Ph Marilyn! So happy to see you pop into view! Alas, the classes are full, but please contact one of the organizers and ask to be put on the waiting list! Thanks for your interest.