A Tweet from Alison Jae got me thinking: one of the enormous problems we as writers have is practicing. Nothing improves our writing like practice,…
Martyn Winters: Author, Composer, Musician
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I read an article on the Writing Cooperative by John Kerr this week about writing Flash Fiction. I found it an enjoyable and informative read. If you’re interested in Flash Fiction, it will be worth your while to cast your eye over it. You can read it here.
Clearly, there are many ways of writing a flash fiction story, but I quite like the clarity this gives the process.
I’ve done a TLDR; below and included a template for you to use at the end.
I’ve written a 500 word flash fiction, “The Asphalt Beach”, published on London Stories. You can read it now. The Asphalt Beach
Okay – in the next 43 years, 29 will be under hard right Tory governments, we will have a pandemic that kills over five million…
McCatface came in about eight last night, nervously at first, then with more confidence. She stopped at the living room doorway and surveyed the chaos…
Here are a couple of new stories for you. The first is SciFi short story called “Guardian of the Present”, which you can find here:…
I was born closer to the Victorian era than today. Queen Victoria died on the 22nd January 1901. So today (14th July 2021) is 44,004…
Readers of this blog will know I intermittently take part in #VSS365 – a daily Twitter task to write a short story within the 280…
I quite admire Gareth Southgate and his team. They strike me as decent, hardworking, and honest; rare commodities in a world where liars rule the roost. So, I’ve warmed to them despite them not being my team. They are the good guys, of that there is no doubt.
Being a dispassionate observer over the other side of Offa’s Dyke allowed me to see them without the obligatory rose-tinted specs donned by just about everyone in England. I commented before last night’s game I thought Italy would win and do so quite comfortably. They are a much more experienced team, led by a manager who dwarfs Southgate in terms of tactical nouse. As it turned out, the score sheet was not as one sided as I thought it might be, finishing at 1-1 after extra time, with Italy’s triumph only being secured in a dramatic penalty shoot out in which they initially fell behind.
I have no idea how to change the time displayed by my car clock. You would think a marvel of modern engineering that can cruise…