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How writing very short stories can improve all your writing (with Grant Faulkner)

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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How to Write a 500 Word Story in One Page

When I was getting my graduate degree in writing, my MFA, he challenged us to write a novel in one page. And so there's an exercise like that in the book, like write the novel in a single page. You can't do it. But it's a wonderful exercise and even like that constraint, we were talking about constraints earlier, but people have written novels on Twitter, you know, just through each tweet. So there's just so many. That's one thing I love about Flash Fiction is how it opens up these other storytelling forms.

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