If you are, the research to find just the right one can be overwhelming! Free entries? Paid entries? How do I know if it’s a legit contest or not? Or–if you are a born skeptic–you may throw in the towel and forget the whole idea. Before you do that, I’d like to recommend a great…
Written by Cindi Carroll Why write a flash fiction story? Writing a flash fiction story, whether it’s 100 words, 500, or 1000 is indeed a challenge. An effective short story requires all the elements of good writing, but in a compressed format. The flash fiction story writer must be able to distill the story…
Don’t Let Writer’s Fear Be An Insurmountable Obstacle to You! “But I’m not good enough, yet.” “I’m just not ready!” I often get responses like these when I encourage a beginner (or not so beginner) writer to enter our Flash Fiction Contest. It is almost always the fearful, “Maybe I’m not a good enough writer…
Writing a story is like an artist creating a fine sculpture. One has a lump of raw material to start with, the basic tools, and from there on it’s all a matter of shaping it, chipping away the parts that aren’t necessary, re-forming it, smoothing it and finally, when its almost done, giving it that…
