Flash Fiction Contest

[Rebecca]

Here's the challenge: Write a complete story -- in 95 words or less -- which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It can be any genre, any theme.

Deadline for entry is noon EST on Monday, April 24th. Email your entry to Rebecca at flashfiction@christianwriters.com. Write "flashfiction entry" in the email subject line, and don't forget to specify your username on the CW site. Include a title for your work; the title does NOT count towards the 95-word limit. If you'd like your real name used when the entry authors are revealed, be sure to include it in your email.

All qualifying entries will be posted anonymously, in the order received, after the deadline has passed. The winner will be determined by a CW member/visitor vote, and the winning entry will be announced on our home page.

Entry is open to all CW members. One entry is allowed per person. Please remember that all entries must adhere to CW content standards. Management reserves the right to reject any entry deemed offensive or inappropriate for our site. If you have any questions, please post them to this thread so that others may benefit, also.

Special thanks to our moderators for the excellent ideas and input for this project. Good work, guys! !thumbsup!

God bless, and happy writing! :)

Rebecca

[kconn23]

Wow, 95 words or less! I don't even think I have any poems that are under 95 words. I have a couple of story type poems that I thought I'd check the word count on. Almost 400 words! I'm anxious to see the submissions you receive!

[Merry]

A Flash Fiction contest? What a great idea! You going to give it a try, Angel? I dunno, pulling off 95 words and doing it well aint going to be EZ!

[wgjones3]

New rule - instant disqualification for using letter-abbreviations like EZ.

[DrRita]

Actually it's micro fiction, stories up to 100 words. Flash fiction is 100-1000 words. I'm working on one but ooohhh it's tough to get the beginning, middle and end in less than 100 words.
Rats wg, now I have to go back and fix all those acronyms.

[Merry]

No abrev.'s? S o k. r Initials o k? M-r ok!....Yeah, no wonder they're not allowed, it's too hard. Are you going to be in the contest, Doc? S-U-R! Okay, enough fooling around...

[MrsCoach]

Sounds like fun:) I'm off and running!

[miranda119]

I've already given it one try, and I ended up with 400 words! I'll have to give it another go!

[Merry]

Yeah, 95 words! I don't know I have enough talent to write 95 words and have it make sense.

[Keith Wallis]

Ninety five words - sounds like a whole days worth of conversation when you work from home.
Angel - you mean that the laundry doesn't get picked up off the bedroom floor, put into the laundry basket, washed ironed and left in a neat pile by the laundry fairy ! That's 50-odd years of my belief gone in a flash - I must tell the wife ................................. Oh, she appears to know.

[Rebecca]

Are we alowed multible submishions?

Nope, only one per customer. :cool:

Rebecca

[waterfallbooks]

That was fun! Got it to exactly 95 words.

[MrsCoach]

Ninety five words - sounds like a whole days worth of conversation when you work from home.
Angel - you mean that the laundry doesn't get picked up off the bedroom floor, put into the laundry basket, washed ironed and left in a neat pile by the laundry fairy ! That's 50-odd years of my belief gone in a flash - I must tell the wife ................................. Oh, she appears to know.

This cracked me up! I know, too! A little too well.... :D

[theodora3]

93 words.
It was an interesting discipline. Took a lot of editing to get it that short. Writing shorter is harder than being long-winded, definitely.

[Invisionary]

I may give a try at this. Sounds fun.

Jeremy

[MrsCoach]

That was pretty tough! I wrote my story, checked the word count and it was almost 250! I thought I was doing so well. It took way longer to cut 3/5 of the words than to write the original story! A great exercise in being concise:)

[Invisionary]

I agree, I look forward to reading the entries. Should be interesting!

Jeremy

[AJWOODSON]

hmmm. sounds good
I think I will attempt a submission
95 words is a might big task
but I love challenges

[DrRita]

I wrote the first draft and had 450 words. Second draft got it down to 296. The third go and i still had 225. Began sweating. The forth pass still left me with around 189. Geez, I didn't know what to cut so started like one word at a time . . . adjectives, first, then scrunching sentences together. I came up with about 145 and still had to pare 50 words. Egads, where to cut. No, must leave verbs . . . and nouns. Hmmm. Well, I kept at it, feeling much like an archeologist on a dig with a tooth pick and small brush trying to uncover a brontosaurus thigh bone. But I made it. !!! Hooray. But. must use read between line skill to comprehend. Oh well . . .