Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass

Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass

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How a Story Becomes an Award Winner: The Kathryn Kulpa Interview
The first of Meg’s forthcoming interviews with writers whose stories have been rejected multiple times and go on to become award winners
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Making a Reader Care
It's not WHAT the reader wants, it's how badly they want it...
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Making Each Sentence its Own Destination
And a priceless quotes on what matters from Gordon Lish...
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When Music Opens Doors to Stories
A prompt and chance to share...
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Why Constraints are Freedom For the Anxious Writer: More Thoughts!
I am an anxious writer by nature, and have been giving this some thought lately.
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Waiting (Collage prompt)
Write a 75 word story about a character waiting for something or someone to arrive.
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Fragments & Disconnects: Story Model and Prompt
The stunning "Antarctica" by Michelle Elvy from SmokeLong Quarterly
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Oddball Methods: #1 The Loop Story
Recipe for a cool and quirky story
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3 Stories to Share... (Pushcart Prize and BSF Nominations)
Prompts and exercises based on these 3 stories forthcoming...
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Lessons on Creating Characters from Method Actors
Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.
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"This is How I Remember It" by Betsy Kemper: Classic Micro and Prompt
Please read Betsy Kemper's "This Is How I Remember It", reprinted below and originally published in W.
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Prose Poetry for the Non-Conformist
The only real rule with prose poetry is don’t put the reader to sleep.
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