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There was an art challenge on twitter throughout September called "Swordtember" that I took part in
Here's my four favourite swords I did! Each had their own snippets of lore, which you can find in the alt text...
I just passed 600 stories for my Shadows & Sorcery dark fantasy flash fiction publication
I've really enjoyed writing each of these 420k (likely much more) words and I'd love for some folks to check it out and have fun with something a little less traditional but still very accessible, weird, cool, dark, and awesome🙏
I just passed 600 stories for my Shadows & Sorcery dark fantasy flash fiction publication
I've really enjoyed writing each of these 420k (likely much more) words and I'd love for some folks to check it out and have fun with something a little less traditional but still very accessible, weird, cool, dark, and awesome🙏
Hey uh so I've been having trouble trying to keep up and post here, but I wanted to say that on this day three years ago, the first edition (issue 0) of my dark fantasy flash fiction publication Shadows & Sorcery was released
I've written one edition (that's 3-5 stories) nearly every week for three years straight (took a week off once), and one serial chapter a month, and I'm just really proud of that
Hey uh so I've been having trouble trying to keep up and post here, but I wanted to say that on this day three years ago, the first edition (issue 0) of my dark fantasy flash fiction publication Shadows & Sorcery was released
I've written one edition (that's 3-5 stories) nearly every week for three years straight (took a week off once), and one serial chapter a month, and I'm just really proud of that
Here's a take that will get me killed:
I personally believe there's a certain homogenization of storytelling, where we say a story must have this and that...but we're talking about long form storytelling. This leads to people sometimes missing the focus of short fiction.
Saying a short story doesn't have good characters is a little silly. Can it have them? Yes. Does it NEED them? No. It's about focus. Try to understand the intent behind a short work before judging it by a preconception.
I have a short thread on the problems I've observed in getting people to engage with flash fiction.
If stuff I see on here is an indication of what audiences are actually like, then the lack of extensive characterization is a genuine barrier to a readership primarily concerned with character interaction and development.
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And yet, it's probably the single most accessible kind of writing in existence. Any fears of wasted time or focus are cancelled out by the inherent low commitment nature of the format.
So why is it a problem getting people interested? I'd love to hear from folks on this!
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