Dash with the Flash by Allison Symes
I’m a flash fiction writer with two collections out with Chapeltown Books but I discovered the form by accident. I hadn’t heard of flash when I began writing seriously. I was happily writing short stories for CafeLit and Bridge House Publishing when the former issued a 100-word challenge. My first thought was you must be kidding me, how can you tell a proper story in such a tight word count? My second thought was they wouldn’t have issued the challenge if it was impossible. Try it. I went with my second thought! Mind you, this is the writing accident to have, isn’t it? Discover a form new to you and be published in it. What I love about flash is setting characters anywhere and everywhere in genre and time. Pixabay image. What I love about flash is, due to the restricted word count, it must be character led. Inventing people (or alternative species - I’ve written from a dragon’s viewpoint!) has always been my favourite aspect of storytelling. The other ...