Series The Long Road Home» flash fiction saga continues with part 10… As Jake neared the truck, bullets began to pierce the fiberglass body. “Holy shit!” the driver screamed, abruptly slamming on the brakes. Jake threw open the door, jerked the driver to the ground, and under the truck. The driver was mad and...
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Series Building A Short Story» All good things must come to an end, and so it is for our series, Eight weeks ago, we started with a piece fully intending to  create a much larger work of fiction from the micro-fiction cornerstone. Our goal was to reach the requirements for a short story (1001...
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Series Building A Short Story» We announced yesterday that this was the 6th installment in our series, Building A Short Story. Well, we were wrong, because this is actually week 7. We have come a long way since we started with our piece as a to build our short story upon. The story has...
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Series Building A Short Story» Well, here we are at week 6 in our series, , and we are saying good-bye to flash fiction; never to bring this story back to its micro-fiction roots of the tale it started out as. A quick recap: we, and myself, wanted to get the creative juices flowing...
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Our series, Building A Short Story, pulls into the last station on the Flash Fiction Line. That's right, our 55 word fiction piece is about to experience the fourth word count doubling since we established it as the cornerstone for a short story.
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Well here we are, week 4 of our series, Building A Short Story, and we are now sitting on 440 words. This installment will be the next to the last step before we start plunging into the official short story realm.
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Welcome to the third installment in our series, Building a Short Story. If you have been following along, then you know that we started to build a short story by writing a 55 word fiction piece in the post The Micro-Fiction Cornerstone, and are attempting to create a
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Last week, we opened our series, Building a Short Story, by introducing a method of constructing a valid short piece from a micro-fiction, 55 word fiction to be exact, and rewriting by doubling the word count with each edit
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Micro-Fiction is often seen as a joke, but try and satisfy all the requirements of 55 word story, for example, and then tell me it's a joke. You need characters, plot and resolution, all in 55 words exactly.
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