Who reads short fiction? Is it easier or harder to write?
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Re: Who reads short fiction? Is it easier or harder to write
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Flash fiction has a special sort of zing because of its length. If it has a message, the point gets across quickly and clearly. If it's just a fun story with maybe a minor twist, that is communicated quickly too. There's little character development but they're very easy to read.
I still haven't been able to write my own flash fiction though. It's tricky! I haven't gotten below 2500 words yet.
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To answer your question: I think a full blown novel offers more real estate for an author to include devices such as metaphor and foreshadowing and on the whole there is greater room for fleshing out character traits, subplots and settings. A short story relies on getting quickly to the meat and potatoes of the plot with far less embellishment. I think you could compare it to art in the sense that a novel is a finely detailed painting whereas a short story is a painting done with fewer and broader strokes.
― Steven Wright
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1. Was short fiction
2. Won a soliloquy contest
3. Caused DATo to observe "Now you can hide your own Easter eggs."
With bonafides like that, why would I write anything else? (Why are 1-3 above bonafides? Read my
collection of soliloquies "Talking To Oneself Isn't Necessarily the Domain of a Manic Stuck in A Nursing Home
With Only a Bed Pan to Talk To." and find out why.