The highlights of the April 10 presentation to D5 follow:
1. Creativity comes from limitation. Limits help create the tension.
2. Writing isn't declaration. It's exploration. This is found in all types of writing--prose, nonfiction, poetry.
3. Flash fiction involves the reader in making order. Don't state the implied.
4. Flash fiction may use imposed or borrowed structures such as lists, absurd contrast between form and content, a recipe, etc.
5. Flash fiction may exist as a dramatic monologue.
6. Flash fiction often distills time into a single scene or moment.
1. Creativity comes from limitation. Limits help create the tension.
2. Writing isn't declaration. It's exploration. This is found in all types of writing--prose, nonfiction, poetry.
3. Flash fiction involves the reader in making order. Don't state the implied.
4. Flash fiction may use imposed or borrowed structures such as lists, absurd contrast between form and content, a recipe, etc.
5. Flash fiction may exist as a dramatic monologue.
6. Flash fiction often distills time into a single scene or moment.