Posts Tagged ‘short story’
Moose McCloud
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I was there the Easter Sunday when Moose McCloud walked into the Holy Redeemer Blessed Church of the Pentecost. The congregation had just started the first hymn when the turbulent rumble of a motorcycle pulled into the parking lot. The noise effectively drowned out the [Read More]
Human Storms
Little six year old Veronica was bracing herself for the storm that was about to hit. That is how she thought of the fights that her parents had, they were like human storms. The winds of anger would start to blow. The shouting was like the rolling thunder. Her [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ Stepping Into a New Realm
Well, here we are at week 6 in our series, Building A Short Story , and we are saying good-bye to flash fiction; never to bring this story back to its micro-fiction roots of the 55 word fiction tale it started out as. A quick recap: we, Carrie and [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ Jumping to 220
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 [Read More]
From 55 Words To 110, Our Fiction Sees Growth
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 [Read More]
Building a Short Story ~ The Series Continues
Tomorrow, May 28th, we continue our series, Building a Short Story, by starting with a micro-fiction piece and rewriting by doubling the word count until we have a bona fide short story. [Read More]
The Micro-Fiction Cornerstone
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. [Read More]
