Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass

Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass

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Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass
Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass
Defamiliarisation: Challenge #1 physical/emotional description
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Defamiliarisation: Challenge #1 physical/emotional description

with a challenge to write and share a line of physical description

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Apr 19, 2024
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The end of art is to give a sensation of the object seen, not as recognized. The technique of art is to make things 'unfamiliar,' to make forms obscure, so as to increase the difficulty and the duration of perception. -Victor Shklovsky

As flash fiction writers our job is to strange-things-up, to defamiliarise, and to make them interesting. To cast light on a character’s experience with an unforgettable lens.

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