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     Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 62.121.31.177 |
Do you like microfiction? Do you dislike it? Can you even see it? Do you have a favourite example (apart from that Hemingway 6 word story that everyone likes)? Do you write it yourself? Do you get annoyed by a sequence of questions? Can your belly touch your bum? Do you have a favourite microfiction writer? Is microfiction worth doing? My favourite microfiction of all time is the most recent one on this site: http://gloomyseahorse.blogspot.com/ What about yours? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I like microfiche. They're yummy with a big plate of chips. | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 62.121.31.177 |
That in itself is a damn good microfiction, Gary! | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
How short is microfiction? I know at least one paying Twitter-zine, which by virtue of the format limits you to 140 characters (whose payment works out to just over 1 cent per character.) Indeed, I should have a piece appearing there some time this month.... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.246.165 |
My favorite is the oft-varied/repeated shortest horror story ever: "The last man on Earth heard a knock at his door." | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.246.165 |
I've just written the world's shortest murder mystery, called Find The Killer The murdered woman had managed to scrawl in blood: SHE DID IT. "That's our only clue," the detective told the grieving widower, Sir Henry Edwards. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
I remember that Barth pieces. I've always found his postmodernism a bit too cutesy for my tastes (I lean more towards Barthelme than Barth), although my experience has been limited to one book and a handful of other pieces. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I'm a H-U-G-E fan of very short, short fiction, and IMO our very own Des Lewis is the master of the form. I recall reading one piece of his - The Miser - which tells a great, creepy ghost story in less than a couple of hundred words, if I recall correctly. BUT I do think that microfiction is a bit too much - or, rather, too little. The story has to DO something to me, to affect me in some way, for me to like it - and microfiction just doesn't give the reader enough to do that as far as I'm concerned. I do like to dabble in writing a little flash fiction myself (less than 500 words, generally), but I'm not very good at it.  | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
BUT I do think that microfiction is a bit too much - or, rather, too little. The story has to DO something to me, to affect me in some way, for me to like it - and microfiction just doesn't give the reader enough to do that as far as I'm concerned. I think that's why the Hemingway one is so often singled out -- it has an emotional element that so many other ultra-short pieces lack. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
My aforementioned and untitled piece of microfiction is now up at http://www.twitter.com/nanoism for those curious about what 140 characters can do. | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 212.219.233.223 |
140 characters is a hell of a lot of protagonists for one piece of microfiction, Jamie! :-) | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
Some of them are antagonists. :P |