Comments on: “Rainbow” – Flash Fiction http://proleary.com/2010/02/11/rainbow-flash-fiction/ Where an Attempt at Art is better than no attempt at all Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:45:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Patrick http://proleary.com/2010/02/11/rainbow-flash-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Patrick Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:07:09 +0000 http://proleary.com/?p=190#comment-36 I found that writing a 55 word story is really just an exercise in finding new ways to say things. When you want to express an idea in a story, you can write whatever you want. Writing with a word limit forces you to think of different (shroter) ways to say that same thing with less. This was the only one I had written to submit to this publication. I chose the leprechaun idea because I was toying with writing a full short-story about it but was never interested in doing it. 55 words, though. that I could do. I found that writing a 55 word story is really just an exercise in finding new ways to say things. When you want to express an idea in a story, you can write whatever you want. Writing with a word limit forces you to think of different (shroter) ways to say that same thing with less.

This was the only one I had written to submit to this publication. I chose the leprechaun idea because I was toying with writing a full short-story about it but was never interested in doing it. 55 words, though. that I could do.

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