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The Door: Flash Fiction Challenge
This is a Flash Fiction piece written in response to one of Chuck Wendig’s prompts. This does have horror themes… I like horror. Prompt: The door opened every Sunday at 6:37 am, like a punctual and eccentric church. And on every Sunday morning, people assembled between the dumpster and the slime-encrusted brick on the other,…
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Online Fiction as a Genre (POV and Framing Devices)
Online fiction (that is fiction written specifically for online communities that are not literary journals) has two characteristics that set it apart from other genres. Of course, not every piece of online fiction will have these two characteristics, but the vast majority will. Almost all online fiction is written in the first person and has…
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Madeleine and Leslie Discuss Dialogue
In this hour-long podcast (yes, overkill, I know), Leslie and I discuss two passages of dialogue. First, we discuss a short excerpt from Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Following that is a similar conversation about a passage from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
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Where to Post Fiction Online
Once you’ve decided that you want to post fiction online, the next question to ask yourself is where you want your work to appear. The common wisdom among freelance writers is to maintain a personal blog and to direct all of your readers while you post your work elsewhere online. The most common web…
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Should You Post Fiction Online? Who Reads It If You Do?
Everything else is online: why shouldn’t fiction be?
