Don’t know why Google is a month late in alerting me to this, but I’m thrilled to get a reference in Sue Fagalde Lick’s write-up on the Compose writing conference I participated in at Clackamas Community College last month. Good to know my workshop was helpful!
Last weekend, I attended a conference called “Compose” at Clackamas Community College near Portland Oregon. Unlike so many conferences these days, we did not talk about marketing, pitching, platforms or publishing. It was all about writing, and I learned something very important. I learned to try again.
In a flash fiction class taught by Samuel Snoek-Brown, we read some super short stories, then wrote our own. Then we wrote them again. And again. Each time, we were instructed to look for the moment, the epiphany at the heart of our story arc. Even though we were trying to write as short as possible, we needed a scene, a character, and something happening. We needed sensory details. In our second pass, we were to add whatever was missing and subtract whatever was not essential. In flash fiction, which can range from a few words to 1,000 words, much is left…
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Thanks so much for sharing this. I really did enjoy your class. Obviously I got something out of it.
Thanks so much for attending! I loved teaching it. 🙂