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How do you write flash fiction? Well, there’s really only one requirement: Keep it short! How short depends on the game, or prompt, or you… but the difference is you write the story planning to make it as concise as possible without sacrificing the image and scene you’re trying to convey. It’s a challenge to write something that pulls in readers without having a lot of time to do backstory or a long adventure. So why do people like writing flash fiction? For me, it’s a different kind of challenge from my usual novels. It reminds me to not repeat words or visuals, which I struggle with. I asked several other authors who are playing with the Pick Two noun game why they like writing flash fiction, and here’s what they had to say: Dolores Esteban says: I think it's an interesting feature to get your creative juices flowing. Aditus says: Flash fiction: no lengthy introduction, no elaborate plot line, no sophisticated ending. Just quick and dirty. What's not to like? Lyssa says: I`d like to write this, because it is fun, keeps my brain busy and I never did something like this in English and I really cherish a new challenge Puppilull says: When I go through patches where my brain isn’t cooperating and the flow just isn’t there, it feels good to write something, anything. Lately, I’ve also tried to challenge myself to write shorter pieces, so I have to work on being to the point. Flash fiction is the thing for that. Mikiesboy says: I like to write flash fiction because it's a challenge. You have to measure what you're saying, and select words carefully. Where i used to post, they often had ultra short fiction challenges - a story in 20 words… those were fun!! Anything like this, forces you to think and step out of your comfort zone! Valkyrie says: I like to write flash fiction because I find it helps me get my mojo back when I'm stuck in a rut. It's also fun to see where the story leads. I never plan out flash pieces, but rather let the characters drive the action. I will also sometimes use flash pieces to work on a particular skill. Such as working on writing in third person, descriptions of characters or settings, or technical exercises such as writing in first person without using the pronoun "I". I never know where flash pieces will take me, and sometimes they lead to longer works. BHopper2 says: Most of the flash fiction I've written has not be published. It's little stories I've written about my Role-playing Characters over the years. I do it for a couple of reasons. 1. To fill in the gaps of what my Characters do "off-stage." 2. For practice, in getting my writing skills better. 3. I love it. So far on GA, I've only done two flash stories from prompts, this game, and a little intro to my main story. I hope to publish more soon. Want to check out some of these authors’ flash fiction? We have a Writing Prompts forum dedicated to the site prompts which are shared weekly. There’s always something new to enjoy in there! If you want to try your hand at writing some flash, give it a shot. There’s a ton of prompts to choose from, or keep an eye out for more games coming in the future like the past Grid & Dice Game and the current Pick Two noun game. Players in those games have their stories in site newsletter features
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Does Gay Authors have minimum quality guidelines? Yes. Prior to submitting your story, please run it through a spelling/grammar checker and read it over for anything the checker missed. Stories with a multitude of spelling and grammar errors could be rejected until the errors have been fixed. If you need help polishing your story prior to posting we encourage you to review the many topics in our Writer’s Forums. Do I have to be a seasoned author to post at GA? No. GA allows both seasoned and first-time writers to submit their stories. We do not expect grammatical and structural perfection in every piece. We do expect as you post to apply the suggestions from readers and your editing team, should you gain one, to hone your skills as an author. Can I post poems or flash fiction stories on GA? Yes. However, all poems or flash fiction stories under 1k in length MUST be placed in collections. You cannot post them all as individual stories. You may create different collections, such as one for free form poetry and another for haikus, but please do not post more than 4-5 collections total. Making a collection is as simple as choosing a title like “Author Name Poems” and then submitting each poem/flash piece as a chapter. What are other tips so my story doesn't have any posting guidelines issues that would prevent it from being approved? Do not resize text size in the editor since this will eliminate a reader’s ability to re-size the text. Only chapter text should be in the chapter text box. There are other areas for chapter titles, chapter notes, and copyright information. Disclaimers or content warnings should be placed in the story or chapter notes. The text editor was chosen because of its compatibility with Word formatting. While it offers a lot of options, not all of them work as expected. Using ‘bold’ and ‘italics’ is okay. Much more than that and the formatting from the editor conflicts with the formatting for the site and you get unintended consequences. Bold and italics are for brief highlights and are NOT to be used in large amounts. This is an accessibility people for some people. *If you use Word, you can have hidden paragraph breaks that will cause double spaces between paragraphs in our editor. Complete these steps to remove that hidden break yet still see a space between paragraphs when you write in Word* Before posting into the story text box, select all your text in Word. Click the “find and replace” option. Insert ^p^p into the find field and ^p into the replace field. Then go to your paragraph/line spacing option. Using the pop up box that appears, scroll down to paragraph spacing. Set the ‘before’ option to 0 and the ‘after’ option to Auto. Then click save. You can now copy your text and paste it into the chapter text box on GA.
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Hey guys. I've recently started a collection of short essays, drabbles some might consider called Love Letters to Nobody. It was my first attempt at posting my work on such a public platform. Would kindly appreciate any feedback at all. And I welcome any discussion at all. If you're interested and have yet to check it out, you can here: https://www.gayauthors.org/story/totallyy/loveletterstonobody Thanks!
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I know that I haven’t posted much to GA lately, but I have still been very busy writing. JMS Books is publishing my collection of short supernatural stories, starting with the first story: The Lone Wolf. Publication date is set for March 10th 2013. Here is the cover art for the first book: http://www.jms-books.com/ They are a collection of 5 sexy stories, fast paced, pieces of flash fiction that are raw, emotional, and sooo very steamy. After all 5 ebooks are published, they will also be in a single volume book for sale in books stores under the title “Bump In The Night.” Release Dates: Book 1: Lone Wolf ~ March 10, 2013 Book 2: Fate Drops In ~ April 28, 2013 Book 3: When Darkness Falls ~ May 19, 2013 Book 4: A Roommate Wanted ~ June 2, 2013 Book 5: The Prey ~ June 16, 2013 Thanks so much for all the readers here at GA that have encouraged me along the way. I have several more projects planned for this year so check back in to see what else I'm working on. I'll post the cover art for the next story as soon as I get it. Thanks again! KC
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