February 2022

Writing flash fiction consistently is hard. When you finally muster the courage to write you are faced with the “no ideas problem”.  Well, it is not that you don’t have ideas but they are not good enough to get you writing the flash pieces.  When the idea comes it is usually in ones and twos.

Over the years shorter forms of fiction have gained popularity. We now have magazines that publish fifty-word stories. In comparison with the literary journals that publish short stories, it doesn’t look like much but with time the form will grow. As we speak of literary magazines let’s not also forget contests for 50 word stories.