A review by emmajaye
Writing Flash Fiction: How to Write Very Short Stories and Get Them Published by Carly Berg

4.0

The practicalities of writing flash fiction, and by that the author means stories under 1000 words. There is some very useful advice here, for me, particularly some of the editing advice about how to tighten up writing. Although I don’t write flash fiction, this book includes many of the pitfalls in style that writers suffer when they are starting. The style of writing flash fiction is quite different to writing longer works, each word counts and the author often has to rely on a single word to set a scene. Unfortunately, for me at least, the need for brevity detracted from the example stories, but I admire the ability of the author to write coherently within such tight constraints.