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ATTENTION : The deadline for this contest has been extended to October 16th.  I extended it because, clearly, you people are a bunch of lazy asses.  Keep in mind I write a flash fiction piece almost every day on my account, so C'MON its not that hard really.

Grrrr...

Really, if this is hard for you, PLEASE note me something and I can help.

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Hi ya'll.  Its been awhile.

This is a new sort of contest.  I'm trying to be creative, so sue me.  

~First off, I would like to start with a few fun facts:



1.  According to Time Magazine's poll last year, 12% of women over 25 said they had read a book in its entirety last year; 6% of men said they had. The rest didn't read a book at all.

2.  Stephen King recently put a novel online and used a kind of honor system for people to pay for the rights to access it. Within a week, several thousands of "honorable" people had paid and downloaded the novel, but within a month those "honorable" people had shared the novel with other potential buyers and the venture turned out to be a bust. King will no longer publish online.

3.  Between last year and this year 178 new online writing art magazines came into being. Between 1980 and 1995 150 new online or print writing art magazines came into being.

4.  Harper's Magazine took a poll and found that 88% of its readers will not read more than 3 pages of writing unless it's "hard" copy in the form of a book or magazine. In short, they won't read length on the internet. Harper's tends to have a literary audience.

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Flash fiction is a genre found mainly online.  It usually doesn't go over 2,000 words (and even then, is rarely that).  I myself have written one sentence stories to 15 page stories, so it is honestly possible either way, in my opinion.

Prose is much like poetry except it is usually (not always) set in a paragraph form and very closely seems to resemble flash fiction.  I have found whole websites raging over whether they are even different at all, so in this case, you can do either as long as the story has a definitive ending and makes sense.

Contest rules:

1.  You must write about a woman with brown hair that sometimes seems red.  She spends a lot of time in her basement and she never smiles.  You can take it from there :) .

2. Prose/flash fiction may not exceed 500 words, but it can be less if you want it to be.

3.  Must, somewhere and in any tense, include the words:

hustle, womb, film, honey, ugly, peach, teeth, cocoa, and rubber .

4.  You cannot use the words:

hair, smile, stairs, darkness, love, hate, alone, sadness.

5.  Be sure to specify if you believe what you are writing is prose or flash fiction.  Also, in the artist's comment's section, tell why you may or may not consider flash fiction a viable piece of literature.  You can totally bash it if you want to, as long as you have a good excuse.

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Alrighty, now THAT was long enough, haha!  I hope you all try this out because writing in a different form is a real learning experience.  I know it was for me!

(preview image = me :iconqueenhrosie: )  If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment asking, or a note.  You can note or comment on this account, or my own.  Also, if you need an example of flash fiction, I have written a bunch on my account (though not neccessarily the best, haha) and that may help you out.

You better get on this, people!

:heart: I LOVE YOU ALL! :heart:


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