Status Updates From A Pocket Guide to Flash Fic...

This book is very informative, explanatory. I find that, as I read it and think about the novel I'm writing, I am generating ideas left and right. Flash is a problem-solver in and of itself, and it is very journalistic in its use of language.

Am taking a one-on-one flash course with Randall. As a writer who uses notecards as I think through plot, I needed that Quinn Dalton essay on 209. Flash reminds me of Pitman shorthand --- whereby it's not just the scribbles, but the depth of pressure applied to the pencil on the paper as well, that conveys meaning. I haven't thought of Pitman in years. It's a lot like headline and cutline writing. No redundancy.

Am taking a one-on-one flash course with Randall. As a writer who uses notecards as I think through plot, I needed that Quinn Dalton essay on 209. Flash reminds me of Pitman shorthand --- whereby it's not just the scribbles, the the depth of pressure applied to the pencil on the paper as well, that conveys meaning. I haven't thought of Pitman in years. It's a lot like headline and cutline writing. No redundancy.

Up to Ch 3 already. Will be taking a one-on-one flash course with Randall -- just cracking the first couple chapters in advance of first class. It brought back methods of the Pitman shorthand --- whereby it's not just the scribbles, the the depth of pressure applied to the pencil on the paper as well, that conveys meaning. I haven't thought of Pitman in years. It's also a lot like headline writing -- no conjuncti