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Flash Fiction

‘Frame Your Flash, Don’t Fence It In’ Over at FFC

by Bill Ward on October 11, 2009

in Writing

Another little essay of mine on flash fiction was just posted over at Flash Fiction Chronicles today, ‘Frame Your Flash, Don’t Fence It In.’ It’s about the world outside the story, the world beyond the ‘frame’ of the piece — and in the case of flash fiction that is a very small frame indeed, under [...]

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‘How I Learned to Write Flash Without Even Knowing It’ Over at FFC

by Bill Ward on October 5, 2009

in Promo, Writing

Over at Flash Fiction Chronicles today I have a post that recalls my misspent youth with some fondness. You see, it turns out all that time I spent reading Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks and Warhammer’s White Dwarf Magazine, I was actually learning how to write flash fiction. Yup, it’s true, all those little snipets of [...]

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Northern Haunts

by Bill Ward on June 17, 2009

in Promo

I am slowly getting caught up with my reading — not only the stuff that I’m supposed to be reviewing, but also those projects of which I am fortunate enough to be a part. Northern Haunts is one such — an anthology of 100 flash fiction stories released back in the beginning of the year. [...]

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Speaking of Flash . . .

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by Bill Ward on May 13, 2009

in Writing

Over at Flash Fiction Chronicles today I’ve posted about how flash fiction lets a writer really experiment with execution, especially when it comes to authorial voice. In The Many Voices of Flash I talk about how flash’s quick and somewhat disposable nature makes it a perfect vehicle for experimentation, but beyond that it is the [...]

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Flashercise Over At Flash Fiction Chronicles

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by Bill Ward on May 6, 2009

in Writing

Now, having newly discovered the very cool Flash Fiction Chronicles blog, I’ve wasted no time getting some scribbles of my own over there in the hopes that the coolness will rub off on me. My first post there, Flash: The Best Exercise, is up today, and in it I talk about how flash affords writers [...]

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Flash Fiction Chronicles

by Bill Ward on April 28, 2009

in Writing, Zines

Having been out of the loop for a while, I completely missed Every Day Fiction’s new Flash Fiction blog until recently, but it’s been a pleasure to catch up on the entries over there. Flash Fiction Chronicles, edited by EDF regular Gay Degani, is exactly what it appears to be: a blog focused completely on [...]

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The Best of EDF 2008 Now Available

by Bill Ward on December 8, 2008

in Promo

Every Day Fiction’s first anthology is now available for purchase in both hardcover and paperback — just in time to make a nice gift. It contains 100 flash fiction stories published over the last year at EDF, and I have two stories in there; Junkyard Rats, and Priority Won. To have a look at the [...]

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