Thursday
Flash Craft: Finding Flash in Snippets that Read Like Titles
Sometimes, a written flash fiction must go in search of its title. Maybe it’s found in the first or last line (and then that line gets deleted). Maybe it’s discovered in a deleted line. Maybe it’s always there, five lines from the bottom. And so on.
But lately, I’ve been writing down snippets of talks and conversations, and these excerpts read like titles of flashes yet to be written. Here are some examples from AWP Denver:
The Problem of Arrangement
Don’t Give a Hoot
The Inexorable Drip Drip
Enter the Time Line
A Continuous and Vivid Dream
To Crush the Heart with a Living Memory
Cut His Life in Two
Another Element of Craft
Time Markers
The Way POV Can Shift
The Act of Storytelling
No Dates Recur
God-Surge
Body as Bridge
Throb
Cadence
The Place
Sample
Buddha’s Bowl
Lodged
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