Week 7

This week we read several flash fiction stories and several articles about how to write flash fiction. We did an exercise writing a story about two people who have mutually exclusive goals from one of those articles that was fun. I think it is funny that there is so much to learn about writing flash fiction when it is so short. It's challenging though to grab a reader's attention and tell a short story all in such a short span. I really feel like it's making me think so much more about every sentence I write. Writing shorts is also making me rethink every phrase I use and pack as much content as I can into the short time I have to set the scene, introduce the characters, give a conflict, and maybe resolve that conflict if I have space left.

I like the assignment for Monday because, while I don't really like the story I wrote, I did feel a little more comfortable writing a short. I think I let go of asking while I write, "Well what about this part? I should make that part longer." Instead I just wrote about a scene I had in my head and let go of worrying about how long I wanted it to be or everything else I wanted to write about but didn't have time. I tried to be as concise as possible with what I did and it ended up being a lot shorter than I thought.