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Twitter Sized Fiction

October 28, 2011

Nanoism: a place for twitter-fiction. Nanoism (edited by Ben White) is an online publication for twitter-fiction: stories of up to 140 characters. Shorter than traditional flash fiction, it’s both a challenge to write and quick as a blink to read. Call it nanofiction, microfiction, twiction, twisters, or tweetfic—it doesn’t matter: It’s the perfect art form for the [...]

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Horror Flash Fiction Contest

October 21, 2011

From Haley Whitehall: I am hosting a horrific flash fiction contest. Here are the rules: Warning they are stricter than a challenge. Genre: Horror or any genre with a strong element of horror Word count: It MUST be 500 words or less How to share: You can put it up on your blog and link here or [...]

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Write a Drabble?

October 9, 2011

What’s a drabble? A drabble is a fiction story that’s exactly 100 words long. via TheRecord – Winners named in WLU drabble competition. My brother has always been part of my life. Years of co-conspirators, fart jokes and hockey against the garage door. One day he became a man, not my same old brother any [...]

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Only 50 Words

September 22, 2011

“I’ll bet you $50 that you can’t write a book using only 50 words,” said Cerf. He knew that Seuss had used a whopping 225 words in The Cat in the Hat, which had recently been published, and he knew how Seuss had struggled with that one, so the $50 seemed like easy money. Yeah… [...]

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Write a Guest Post for Seven Sentences

August 28, 2011

Seven Sentences – How much can you say in just seven sentences? Pick a topic and go for it. While my butt is glued to this chair I’m still not writing one word. My fingers are on the keyboard, replying to an email. My eyes flick up to the computer screen, someone replied to me [...]

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The Rumours of my Death… #RIPrumors

April 1, 2011

I forget which celebrity it was, but an RIP for one of them became a trend post to Twitter last week. Turned out the rumours of his death were false. I posted “We should all do a fake RIP for each other just to see if anyone notices.” Well, Catherinette noticed and wrote an RIP [...]

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