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On the Vulgar Appetite for the “Fact”
I am asked, with a frequency I have come to find wearying, whether the events of my novels "really happened...
by Leo Nakamura
The Tyranny of the “Relatable” Protagonist
There is a peculiar sickness that has crept into historical fiction...
by Leo Nakamura
Here a cat, There a cat
Still trying to decide what to actually DO here.
by Kim
The Wright Word
Chekhov's Gun
by Clive Wright
vegas bound(again)
lost in the Horseshoe Casino/Hotel
by Kim
Two Wayward Writers
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by Rachel McCarron
Read and Wright
Novels that have influenced my writing
by Clive Wright
brain scatter
dropping seeds all over the place
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  1. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat Fractured Lit editor on Flash Fiction

    https://www.facebook.com/FracturedLit https://litmagnews.substack.com/p/does-it-tell-a-story-a-chat-with https://fracturedlit.com/2025-ghost-fable-and-fairy-tales-prize/
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  2. Pamela Jo

    One Perfect Sentence Take your sentence to 100 w -win a Writers.ie FF contest

    https://www.writing.ie/writing-comps/free-flash-fiction-competition-27/
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    • competition contest flash sentence writing
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  3. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat WOW Competition Critique

    Remember when Women On Writing had their free competition awhile back? I entered a flash fiction story I wrote for the old FF Litopia contest. They offer a critique which was interesting. It highlights that old problem of how the reader and a story create a whole different dynamic than you...
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  4. Katie-Ellen

    World Poetry Day

    Apparently. Favourite poems, poems of your own? Twitter goes in for flash poetry using various hashtags. They post prompts and you whip up a poem in less than 140 characters. Just a bit of fun. #writtenriver A theme this week was the Unbounded Imagination Memories of stars & stones Bubbled...
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