This week we spent reading more flash fiction. Some of the exercises turned out to be really interesting, especially the one where we were essentially given a first line as a prompt, and then wrote from that. I didn't expect it to turn out very well, but the piece I did, starting with "Garden of Time", felt like the first successful piece of flash fiction I've written so far: the only one to feel self contained rather than like a pile of sticks tossed together across the ground.
The process of imitating fiction so far has been interesting. Rather than just "imitating" stories, most of what we've been doing has been using the original as an aesthetic model just to "learn" how to write, which is a really cool approach. All writing, of course, at least to some extent, is imitation. Flash fiction is a pretty decent place to start.
The process of structuring flash fiction into a "narrative", with place, time, and characters, etc, has still been the most difficult part for me. Over the next few stories it's what I'm hoping to work on the most.
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