From Flash Fiction to Novel Writing
Learn to write powerful, emotionally resonant flash fiction and acquire the skills to build a novel, plus more from Writer’s Digest!
When Ernest Hemingway was starting out, he focused on writing paragraphs. His first book (in our time, Paris 1924) was a collection of one-page stories. His method was to “write one true sentence” and building from there. “The natural way was the best way,” he says in his memoir A Moveable Feast.
In Flash to a Novel, learn to write powerful, emotionally resonant flash fiction for submission to journals and acquire the skills to build a novel through the meticulous selection and accumulation of details while embracing the process of discovery.
Vote For Your Story #138!
Out of nearly 100 entries, WD editors chose the following seven finalists from the Your Story 138 photo prompt.
Enter Your Story #139!
Write the opening line to a story based on the photo prompt below. (One sentence only.) You can be poignant, funny, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story. Email your submission to yourstorycontest@aimmedia.com with the subject line "Your Story 139."
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In this episode of "Writer's Digest Presents," we're chatting with author Carson Faust about writing southern gothic fiction, his debut novel If the Dead Belong Here, how to perfect styles of writing you admire as a reader, and more. Listen wherever you stream podcasts, or below.
