Dear flash fiction and short story authors: Last month, we offered the opportunity for you to write guest posts for the site. And boy, did you answer the call! We got 7 posts on the topic we requested (Why I Love Continue Reading
Guest Posts
Google+ for Authors: Predictions, Tips and Tactics
Google+ for Authors: Predictions, Tips and Tactics For a couple of years, journalists, writers, bloggers and marketers built up their Google+ profile and presence on the Web due to Google’s Authorship feature, which allowed popular posts to appear in search Continue Reading
Why I Write Short Fiction: A Guest Post by Camille Coward
I started writing short fiction as a way to strengthen my writing. I found that it was challenging to pack a punch in as few words as possible, and this caused repetition when writing longer pieces–it was redundancy that neither reinforced nor Continue Reading
Why I Write Short Fiction: A Guest Post by Alex Morritt
Why I Like Writing Short Stories and Flash Fiction HOW IT BEGAN I have to confess that I never consciously set out to write short stories or flash fiction, but following a life-changing move from the UK to Central America Continue Reading
Why I Write Short Stories: A Guest Post by Bart Van Goethem
Why I like to write micro and flash fiction There are a number of reasons why I like to write micro and flash fiction: 1. I don’t have a lot of time. I have a full time job, two young Continue Reading
Why I Write Short Fiction: A Guest Post by Nicholas C. Rossis
Dear short fiction, how do I love you? Let me count the ways… You were this reader’s first love. My eyes widened and my heart raced when reading Philip K. Dick’s short stories, my introduction to science fiction. You carried Continue Reading
Why I Write Short Fiction: A Guest Post by Mandi Millen
Headline news from humanity’s frontline An abandoned shopping cart standing like a modern-day ‘Marie Celeste’ by the roadside. That streetlight that always flickers off the minute you get within ten feet of it. The succession of motley moochers in mismatching Continue Reading
Why I Write Short Fiction: A Guest Post by Marc Nash
This guest post is courtesy of Marc Nash. Though I didn’t start writing Flash as a deliberate act; rather, I was filling in the time between publishing novels with fresh writing. Having written nearly 200 flash stories, I’m now very Continue Reading
Why I Write Short Fiction: A Guest Post by Kendall Bailey
This guest post is courtesy of Kendall Bailey. I prefer to read in short bursts, I have since I was in elementary school. It’s one of the reasons why I’m attracted to short fiction. I read novels too, please understand, Continue Reading