{"id":8538,"date":"2021-01-30T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T18:03:29","slug":"introducing-the-art-of-flash-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8538","title":{"rendered":"Introducing &#8220;The Art of Flash Fiction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8539\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artofflashfiction.substack.com\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8539 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/logo-firework.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/logo-firework.png 256w, https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/logo-firework-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Art of Flash Fiction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>For the past several months, I have been writing short craft essays on flash fiction toward the goal of compiling them into a guidebook\/workbook.<\/strong> Seeing so many writers feeling stuck or needing inspiration right now, I&#8217;ve decided to offer them in monthly installments (along with a writing prompt). I announced this on Twitter and sent out the first newsletter on January 15th.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so grateful to all of you for the response. I already have over 1,000 subscribers!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The next newsletter, &#8220;Opening the Door&#8221; goes out February 15th. I will cover flash fiction opening sentences and paragraphs, along with an exercise for creating a compelling opening for your story.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This newsletter is FREE. If you&#8217;d like to sign up, you may do so here: <a href=\"https:\/\/artofflashfiction.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Art of Flash Fiction.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will be soon be actively seeking representation for this collection of craft essays and writing prompts. In the meantime, I hope you will enjoy, and be inspired by, these monthly installments. Happy writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past several months, I have been writing short craft essays on flash fiction toward the goal of compiling them into a guidebook\/workbook. Seeing so many writers feeling stuck or needing inspiration right now, I&#8217;ve decided to offer them in monthly installments (along with a writing prompt). I announced this on Twitter and sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[218,219,222,347,729,756,957,992,1099],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-art-of-flash-fiction","tag-craft-books","tag-craft-essays","tag-creative-writing","tag-flash-fiction","tag-newsletter","tag-openings","tag-substack","tag-the-art-of-flash-fiction","tag-writing-prompts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}