If a novel is a polaroid whose development is slowed and stretched across hundreds of pages, flash fiction is a finger press on a camera phone. The picture springs instantly to life and the reader is allowed to look at it, and turn it over.
"Well, character is the north star; the revelation of it is what you aim for, and the feel and pull of it is how you steer. But plot is how you get there."
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I write flash because I’m not a traditional writer, and I like being able to write a piece without having the constraints of the short story form. What makes it different for me is being able to take a character or a scene and … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Hillary Leftwich
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I’ve always been obsessed with small things, tiny well-made objects, aswell as prose and poetry in its teeniest forms. I love concision, precision and neatness – I was a fan of Ivor Cutler and Emily Dickinson and other sharp, economical writers in my teens … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Nuala O’Connor
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? It is incredible how we can illustrate, evoke, imply an entire life or world in a few pages, in a brief series of moments. Something small that is so much larger and more powerful in scope than it first appears, something that is fit … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Anna Vangala Jones
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I fell in love with flash twenty years ago when I read Augusto Monterroso’s “The Dinosaur” for the first time. It is a perfect diamond of a story – a single sentence long and it contains a whole world! I was so impressed by … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Sarah Arantza Amador
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I have always had a tendency to write long, sometimes too long. So flash was a revelation to me. I’ve had to learn how to convey back story in hints and whispers and to pare my language down to the essence. It’s made me … Continue reading Mini Interview with Fiona J. Mackintosh
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? Well, to be honest, my answer isn’t very glamorous. At this point in my life flash fiction is what have time and energy for. I am working on a couple of novels but the reality is that those projects are going to take years … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Damon Garn
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? When I started writing regularly about five years ago, I didn’t even know the sort of stories I was creating had a name. All I knew was that I preferred writing lots of very small stories to fewer, larger ones. Then I started using … Continue reading Mini-Interview with David Cook
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I’ve learned a long time ago that in my culture, the more a woman speaks, the less she’s heard. Economy is key. Through this form I’ve discovered to self-express concisely without resorting to the drama or flourish-y add on other forms have room to … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Riham Adly
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