Call for Storytime Blog Hop October 30th!
Call for Storytime Blog Hop
NEXT HOP OCTOBER 30TH, 2019 WEDNESDAY
STORY LINKS DEADLINE FOR PARTICIPATION IS: OCTOBER 25TH, 2019, FRIDAY Sent to me here.
Rules & Guidelines
Storytime Quarterly Blog
WHAT IS SPECULATIVE FICTION?
According to Wikipedia: Speculative fiction is a broad category of narrative fiction that includes elements, settings, and characters created out of imagination and speculation and not based on reality and everyday life. It encompasses the genres of science fiction, fantasy, science fantasy, horror, alternative history, and magic realism.
(Paranormal and supernatural stories welcomed and/or romance, mystery, thrillers with those elements.)
Rules & Guidelines
Call for Storytime Blog Hop
Come join the fun. Storytime Blog Hop October 30th. Happy Halloween. Flash fiction 500 to 1000 words. Read the guidelines for more details. We hope you will join us, and even if you do not write a story—come read the stories and leave us comments. We love hearing from you.
Come celebrate Halloween with us. Writing flash fiction and participating in blog hops are goods ways to give you practice writing story, and gives you a feel of allowing others to see your work.
If you love story come read us and meet the authors. You get a variety of stories in the speculative fiction genre which includes science fiction, fantasy, science fantasy, horror, alternative history, and magic realism. (Paranormal and supernatural stories welcomed and/or romance, mystery, thrillers with those elements.)
If you are looking to learn flash fiction I highly recommended Holly Lisle’s Free 3-week class on How to Write Flash Fiction That Doesn’t Suck! There are no hidden catches it is free. I learned so much. It even help me improve my scene writing in my bigger writing and several of the writers participating in the blog hop have also taken this class.
FREE 3-WEEK FLASH FICTION COURSE
October 10, 2019 @ 13:39
I should do more flash fiction. I always enjoy it- when I can think of something to write!
October 10, 2019 @ 14:03
I always come up with a character with strong desire/need, give them a problem or dilemma and put in a setting I enjoy writing.
One I just recently wrote for example.:
SETTING in this instance is more holiday & consequence than dependent on real location.
The Character is a Witch.
The Desire is to go the community Halloween Party.
The problem her date got sick and she doesn’t have a license, so can’t fly herself there and all her friends are already double brooming it. (The problem/conflict: is choice (character action taken) and consequence (repercussions of the choice). This story had to be 500 words or less for me to submit it. I wrote in 492 words. I am still waiting to see if accepted.
October 10, 2019 @ 06:29
Flash fiction might be the only thing I have time for writing these days.
October 10, 2019 @ 11:50
Would love it if you played with and joined the hop.