Paralipsis: The Best Rhetorical Device--Evah!
By Randall Brown | January 23, 2013 10:15 AM |A speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. (continue reading)
Flash Craft: Start Following the "Almond Rule" for Story Openings
By Randall Brown | January 21, 2013 1:15 AM |The reader should know at least much as your protagonist (continue reading)
Flash Fiction Craft: Use POV To Close That Distance in a Flash
By Randall Brown | January 14, 2013 1:59 AM |Writing third-person pieces that use, as much as possible, the character’s language, then, is one way to speed up the identification process. (continue reading)
Flash Fiction Craft: So What (Exactly) is Brevity in Flash Fiction?
By Randall Brown | January 8, 2013 1:38 AM |So what is brevity exactly? I don’t know. It’s about getting words to count more than they might in other less-compressed forms. (continue reading)
Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain": Using Summarization to Create Dramatic Dialogue
By Jennifer Fenn | January 7, 2013 1:49 AM |You, too, can manipulate dialogue through summary and indirect quotation to heighten dramatic effect (continue reading)
Flash Fiction Wordle
By Randall Brown | December 6, 2012 12:23 PM |Flash Narrative Analysis: Beverly Jackson's "Buddha Gold"
By Chelsea Covington Maass | October 30, 2012 9:22 AM |Try to write a flash piece that follows the narrative pattern in Beverly Jackson’s “Buddha Gold.” (continue reading)
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