Cultivate joy. This should be fun – why else do it?
All writing is paradoxical – that’s the joy and the mystery.
Cultivate discipline – schedules, deadlines, routines, word counts.
Airini Beautrais and David Eggleton on flash fiction
Comments from the judges of the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day competition Flash fiction should emphasise compression, concision and language working at maximum force to convey a situation or scenario, or best of all some insight or epiphany transcending the mundane and the quotidian. Flash fiction needs to be good at suggesting the allusive, the […]