Flash Fiction is like lifting free weights for your writing; helping you strengthen it by fine-tuning it, building a sharper exposition, and giving you an eye for self-editing. The benefits of writing flash fiction can’t be denied, and it can teach you what hours of writing classes can’t.
What is Flash Fiction?
Flash Fiction is a short piece of writing with a beginning, a middle, and an end in no more than 1000 words. It usually has already developed characters and is economical in its storytelling.
#1 Making every word count.
Writing a book is like creating a world in itself. But what if that world had a word limit? That’s where flash fiction writing presents its challenges. Writing a story within a certain word limit forces you to pack a punch with less words and fewer adjectives. It trains your brain to restrain your writing to a crisper edge.
#2 Better self-editing
If you’re not used to writing flash fiction, you’ll probably end up exceeding the word limit more often than you’d like to admit. But your mind will automatically think about the parts that your readers would absolutely want to read and the parts that are not necessary to the story, forcing you to cut out absolutely unnecessary parts and keep the most vital parts of the story intact.
