Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling

Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling

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Mini-Interview with Jen Fawkes

Mini-Interview with Jen Fawkes

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Tommy Dean
Aug 28, 2020
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Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you?

Flash provides me with the very thing – closure, satisfaction, the rainbow’s end – that long-form fiction dangles before me like an ever-diminishing carrot. I write both long-form and flash, but I always know instantly when an idea is best suited to flash. It feels compressed and urgent, and is dri…

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