Making Your Flash Fiction Pop

Former Writer’s Digest editor-in-chief Maria Schneider has listed out her “5 Qualities of Good Flash” at Editor Unleashed. Some good stuff here for those who work in short form. A taste:

4. A Seamless Mix of Narrative and Dialogue
Stories that are nearly all dialogue have the feel of reading a screenplay, not a story. The reader is left with an overall sense of something missing.

Check out the whole piece here.

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