Simon Starjumper - A Flash Fiction Tutorial
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Learn how to write flash fiction. It's not as hard as you think! This guide presents a simple set of exercises that will demonstrate just how easy writing a short story can be.
If you do the exercises, you'll have a piece of flash fiction when you finish.
Total lesson time: 30 minutes to an hour
Mary Robinette Kowal was a guest speaker on Brandon Sanderson's YouTube writers series. This tutorial extracts her instructions and information to act as a tutorial for learning to write flash fiction, or really, a story of any length. If you work through this tutorial and play along, I encourage you to visit the video on YouTube and catch all her details. It's a wonderful explainer and exercise bundled all into one.
Cover art: "Space Collision" by chiaralily is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
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