{"id":2187,"date":"2021-04-03T07:26:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2021-04-03T07:26:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:26:02","slug":"review-going-short-an-invitation-to-flash-fiction-by-nancy-stohlman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-going-short-an-invitation-to-flash-fiction-by-nancy-stohlman\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Going Short &#8211; An invitation to flash fiction, by Nancy Stohlman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flash fiction &#8211; stories of up to 1,000 words &#8211; is a new way of writing, and one that sounds quite appealing. Nancy Stohlman&#8217;s book is a short (as you&#8217;d expect) introduction to the subject.  She&#8217;s passionate about writing to word limits (so am I) and she&#8217;s convincing in making the case that this is not necessarily an easier way to write.  Indeed, writing a 300 word micro-story is in some ways much harder than writing  a &#8216;normal&#8217; short story ten times that length.  The best part of the book: she offers dozens of prompts, ideas to get one started writing.  If I ever publish flash fiction, remember: it started with this book.  (And that was about 100 words.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash fiction &#8211; stories of up to 1,000 words &#8211; is a new way of writing, and one that sounds quite appealing. Nancy Stohlman&#8217;s book is a short (as you&#8217;d expect) introduction to the subject&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}