I’m pretty sure I spend as much time researching as I do writing a chapter for “Steampunk Stories: Allister Davies”. Time travel is impossibly difficult to grasp in a practical sense and the pitfalls are everywhere. What happens if the character meets himself? What happens if the character meets someone who knows a relative of his? Could a casual conversation make it so that via a series of events the character isn’t even born? Thankfully I’m writing fiction and I don’t have

In my last post I wrote about the piece of flash fiction entitled “Green Grass”. In that post I briefly described draft speed writing and how I managed to complete a story so quickly. The draft itself was far from great, but in the 15 minute writing session I had succeeded in more than enough so that the revision went rather quickly. The revision was largely focused on dialogue. The structure had been completed in the draft and remained almost unchanged, but the dialogue nee

I don’t know how flash fiction started, and I’m not sure if “flash” was originally in reference to the time needed to write the piece, it’s length, or the time to read it. Yesterday I published a 600-word piece of flash fiction entitled “Green Grass” under the section ‘Dark Fiction’. It only took me 15 minutes to write the draft, my fastest story writing session ever. The next day I revised the piece and that only took me about a half hour. The reason why I managed to write