“A shimmering Image is a memory that rises in your consciousness like a photograph pulsing with meaning…” Lisa Dale Norton, Shimmering Images, A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir Photo credit: Danny Lehman
Tag: flash memoir
Songwriting on a Lark
If you can’t get past the first page of your story, try songwriting. Seriously, write short, not long. Even if it’s only on a lark, it’s great practice for prose writers to work in poetry and song. If you’re interested, check out the Singer/Songwriters Telesummit.
FLASH FICTION, FLASH MEMOIR!
Writers of full-length narrative may easily be enticed by the extreme brevity of flash fiction. A story with a word-count of 250 to 1000 words forces its creator to dive right into the thick of things. And what a joy to complete a story in minutes instead of months. Now, writers of memoir can join in the dash. Recently, the magazine More encouraged its readers to write and post a six-word memoir. Their example: Revenge is living well, without you. —Joyce Carol Oates, from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. To read other six word memoirs and …