Fred White

Writing Flash: How to Craft and Publish Flash Fiction for a Booming Market

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Produktbeschreibung

Key selling points: 1. Shows readers how to use flash fiction to strengthen and develop their writing skills. 2. Great introduction to a fiction market that offers many opportunities to writers. 3. Complete guide to writing, publishing, and marketing flash fiction. 4. Presents a plan for how writers can use flash fiction to develop their overall writing career and increase their visibility to agents, editors, publishers, and readers. Audience: Professional and aspiring professional fiction writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Linden Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781610353175
• ISBN-10: 161035317X
• Artikelnr.: 49021927

Autorenporträt

Fred D. White received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. He has taught courses in writing and literature in Minnesota and, since 1980, at Santa Clara University in Northern California, where he is now Professor of English, Emeritus. In 1996 White received the Louis and Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence. White has published several books on writing, as well as dozens of stories, essays, poems, and plays. He lives with his wife in Rancho Cordoba, California.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF FLASH Chapter 1: Introduction The Basics of
Flash Fiction Origins of Flash Fiction I: Parable, Fable, Fairy Tale,
Allegory Origins of Flash Fiction II: The Sketch The Influence of the Short
Story on Flash Fiction Writing Flash Fiction as Preparation for Writing
Traditional Short Stories and Novels Shaping a Flash Tale: A Quick Overview
Resources for Flash Fiction Writers Another Invaluable Resource: Your
Writer's Notebook Time To Pick Up Your Pen Chapter 2: The Possibilities of
Flash Fiction Literary Flash Fiction I: Character-Based Literary Flash
Fiction II: Theme-Based Genre Flash Fiction Humorous or Satirical Flash
Fiction Experimental Flash Fiction Time to Pick Up Your Pen Chapter 3:
Tools for Analyzing Flash Fiction Analyzing Flash Fiction Analysis of a
Literary Flash Story Analysis of a Genre Flash Story Analysis of a Humorous
Flash Story Analysis of an Experimental Flash Story Time to Pick Up Your
Pen PART TWO: THE NUTS & BOLTS OF WRITING FLASH Chapter 4: Writing Genre
Flash Fiction How Traditional Story Structure Works in Flash Fiction
Crafting a Genre Flash Story Anatomy of a Genre Flash Story Time to Pick Up
Your Pen Chapter 5: Writing Literary Flash Fiction What is Literary Flash
Fiction? Creating Character Profiles Describing Settings Crafting a
Literary Flash Story Anatomy of a Literary Flash Story Time to Pick Up Your
Pen Chapter 6: Writing Humorous and Satirical Flash Fiction Defining
"Humor" and "Satire" The Humorist's and Satirist's Toolbox How to Create a
Humorous Flash Piece How to Create a Satirical Flash Piece Time to Pick Up
Your Pen Chapter 7: Writing Experimental Flash Fiction Types of Experiments
with Flash Fiction Experimenting with Length Experimenting with Subject
Matter Experimenting with Character and Viewpoint Experimenting with Time
Experimenting with Metafiction Experimenting with Language and Style Some
Thoughts on Hybridity Time to Pick Up Your Pen PART THREE: MARKETING FLASH
Chapter 8: Marketing Your Flash Fiction Building Readership Using Social
Media to Fine-Tune Your Flash Fiction Benefitting from a Writer's Group or
Workshop Studying the Flash Fiction Market Volunteering as an
Editor-at-Large Maintaining a Submissions Record Editorial Reporting Times
A List of Periodicals that Feature Flash Fiction Writing the Cover Letter
Time to Pick Up Your Pen Chapter 9: Preparing a Volume of Flash Fiction:
Chapbook or Full-Length Collection Basic Suggestions How to Give Your Book
or Chapbook a Competitive Edge Writing a Query Letter Writing a Cover
Letter What about Prize Money or Royalties? Time to Pick Up Your Pen PART
FOUR: WRAPPING IT UP Chapter 10: Concluding Reflections, and a
Self-Interview Flash and the World of Story Flash and the Writing Life On a
Personal Note . . . Self-Interview A Flash Fiction Checklist Time to Pick
Up Your Pen Further Reading Anthologies of Flash Fiction Anthologies of
Short-Short Stories Anthologies of Short Humor Individual Author
Collections of Flash Fiction or Humor Novels or Novellas Containing Flash
Fiction Episodes Periodicals That Feature Flash Fiction References Stories
Appearing in This Book Works Cited