A week later and I’m still dead in the water. The last two chapters of “ Null City ” aren’t going anywhere. Writing flash fiction was a nice distraction, but that’s all it was. This time it didn’t save me, it actually probably distracted me too much from completing the first draft of my book. I find this to be rather disappointing, but there’s no sense in crying over small works. There’s only one solution that I can see. One tried and true method in order to get past this st

If flash fiction didn’t exist, I’m not sure what I would do. I probably have invented it myself, if only as a writing tool. When I can’t get my longer writings to work as I had hoped, I have two choices; give up or write a piece of flash fiction. Many of these pieces I end up throwing away, but it doesn’t matter. Writing a few hundred words on a random topic oils the prose and gets it flowing again. Terrible ideas are discarded and new ones take their place. All of this thank

I’m forced to give up on the second piece of ‘cold’ flash fiction. I simply can’t write it as a single piece. The plot just screams to be a flash fiction series, but now is not the time to add another one as “ Steampunk Airships ” is closing in on the end of the first volume. What does it mean for me not to have been able to complete the second piece of flash fiction? At first, I was rather frustrated that I couldn’t hammer it into the small shape that I wanted. Then I panic