Flash Fiction – Play in Progress https://doctormikereddy.com Dr. Mike Reddy Mon, 29 Jul 2013 06:43:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 55846040 Getting ready for #TicckleTuesday https://doctormikereddy.com/2013/07/29/getting-ready-for-ticckletuesday/ https://doctormikereddy.com/2013/07/29/getting-ready-for-ticckletuesday/#comments Mon, 29 Jul 2013 06:42:05 +0000 http://doctormikereddy.com/?p=695 Continue reading Getting ready for #TicckleTuesday →]]> Less than a day to go. Putting out the RT requests on Twitter, etc, but I know it is going to be a slow start – unless Stephen Fry retweets of course 🙂 in which case we could get into double figures! – but I don’t mind a slow start. Writing for a 30 second story seems impossible, but if 50wordstories (search on FaceBook and Twitter) can succeed, so can we. It could be a joke, a poem, a “vertical slice” (effectively the pitch for what would really need to be something longer), or just a wonderfully compact narrative.

If nothing else *I* will be having a go. So, you will get at least one story on Tuesday. To give you an idea of what to expect, here (in text form) is a 50 word story I submitted to http://fiftywordstories.com/ for the SUMMER STORIES competition, which has the theme “camping or picnic”; there is still time to enter BTW. This can be performed in 30 seconds:

Title: Weather Warning

“Aren’t you worried about the hurricane warning?”

“No. Are you?”

“We’re rather exposed, under canvas, and the storm is nearly here!”

“This tent is foolproof. Once erected properly it will withstand a hurricane. The material is Force Ten proof. The poles, carbon fibre. And the pegs, machined magnesium alloy.”

“”¦Pegs?”

]]> https://doctormikereddy.com/2013/07/29/getting-ready-for-ticckletuesday/feed/ 1 695 #TicckleTuesday Announcement of the first ever 30s Flash Fiction compo https://doctormikereddy.com/2013/07/29/ticckletuesday-announcement-of-the-first-ever-30s-flash-fiction-compo/ https://doctormikereddy.com/2013/07/29/ticckletuesday-announcement-of-the-first-ever-30s-flash-fiction-compo/#respond Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:23:52 +0000 http://doctormikereddy.com/?p=694 Continue reading #TicckleTuesday Announcement of the first ever 30s Flash Fiction compo →]]> Competition starts 12am 30th July where a theme will be announced on Ticckle, FB and Twitter. Participants will have 23 and a bit hours to write, record and upload a 30s story to Ticckle, the new social media platform. After that people can leave comments or response videos for any/all of the stories, and I’ll pick my personal favourite as well. The only prize will be honour, but since you can’t buy that it is priceless!

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