Many apologies for not being able to share my CFT post yesterday. I’m glad to say the site is now up and running again, hence this extra post.
Facebook – General – and Chandler’s Ford Today
Glad to say I can now share my CFT post for this week. I look at what I think are the Top Ten Accomplishments of mankind. I don’t stick to one particular field and my comments have to be a summary but I have picked photography, the domestication of the dog, and space exploration amongst others.
As ever, comments welcome on the CFT page.
Image Credit: All images in the following slideshow are from Pixabay and are related to my CFT post. You could play “guess the accomplishment” by looking at the slideshow first!
Facebook – From Light to Dark and Back Again
With flash fiction, you are focusing on one specific moment of change for a character. There literally isn’t the word count for more so the challenge is to make sure that specific moment is strong enough to be worthy of having a story written around it.
I look for impact on me as the writer, and then on what I think the impact will be on readers, when I decide on whether a story idea is strong enough or not. That idea has to generate a strong emotional reaction whether it is to make me laugh, cry, scream or what have you.
Goodreads Author Programme Blog – Books to Dip Into
I love books you read straight through from cover to cover but I also adore those where you dip into them as and when.
Things like the Guinness Book of Records come into that category. I’m currently reading a “big book of facts” produced by Classic FM but will almost certainly have regular dips into this, rather than read it straight though. (To be fair it is a HUGE book).
I also like the way this mixes up my reading a bit as I read flash fiction (as well as write it), short stories, and novels. I also dip read. Dip reading is also useful when I’ve finished a book and am not quite sure what I’m going to read next.
I often fancy a change of mood after completing a novel and until I know what is next on my reading “menu”, I will dip into books like this until such time as I do know.
But the important thing is I keep reading!
Allison Symes: Collected Works 