I'm very dissatisfied with my foray into flash fiction yesterday. It's just such a good idea. All other media is trending shorter and more flexibly delivered to busy/mobile people. I think short fiction has a natural place at that table. (OtherMe is certain of it. She's already plotting an iPhone app.)
So I'm going to go out and read a lot more of it. Since I also strongly suspect that the skills required to write good flash fiction will be useful for writing any commercial fiction, I think I'm going to try some here on the blog for practice. Stay tuned.
Incidently, I understand why it isn't necessarily favored by authors. Novels usually pay advances and/or royalties, but unless anthologized, short stories usually pay one time, by the word. Under this model, flash fiction is utterly unlucrative, even by writing standards.
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