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Notes to myself on flash fiction
Ways to Hone the writing of Shorts and Typical Key Elements
by Kaye Linden
The above log cabin is where we used to live. Enough said about that.
In organizing my stuff for the new year, I came across a bunch of notes I had made for myself on flash fiction. These are rough notes but might come in useful for you. I give my permission to use them as you wish.
Given with hugs.
Kaye
Wallaby Stew
wallaby with baby
Most of you know by now that I am from Australia and write Australian tales. The fifty tale collection based on the whacky character of “Ma” is now in the publication process. In honor of the old poets from the 1800′s, I occasionally post a bush ballad here. These poems reflect the life of the bush pioneers in the 1800′s and early 1900′s in Australia.
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Wise Words
While reading some information on proper manuscript format on the Whidbey Island Writers alumni site, I came across the following website, and a few comments from instructor Bruce Holland Rogers, master of short fiction.
http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
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To novel or not to novel. That is the question…
Once upon a time I lived on the only raging, free flowing river in Colorado. The Animas.
Six acres, a log cabin and fly fishing rights plus a view to the mountains.
Things changed.
I opened my clutching fingers and let that go. Such illusory matter fills the vaporous dreams we try to hold as they float in and out of our lives like wisps of white clouds.
Now I just write about “THE DREAM.”
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