{"id":29,"date":"2011-09-13T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T12:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2018-04-07T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T10:29:13","slug":"short-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories & Flash Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At any given time I’m working on a few short stories and flash fiction to provide a bit of variety and experiment with aspects of writing. Writing a novel\/novella has a long payoff period – as well as providing much needed practice the shorter form also gives some sense of satisfaction for actually finishing something.<\/p>\n

I remember being told at a workshop that for someone like me with absolutely no contacts in the industry, getting short stories published can be a good way of getting to know both the craft and the processes of writing\/publication. That way, when you are looking at trying to interest someone in a novel, you have at least enough thin strands of credibility to cover your modesty.<\/p>\n

That is probably true, but I must admit I am enjoying the shorter forms as an end unto themselves much more than I thought I would. It is interesting to explore a more focused range of ideas, and in the case of flash fiction attempting to get across an entertaining story in such a small number of words is very challenging. It also forces a discipline with writing, trying to make every word count. I’m having a ball with it.<\/p>\n

I’ve had a few flash fiction pieces published at Antipodean SF<\/em> and more recently longer pieces published at Electric Spec<\/em> and Robot and Raygun<\/em> – see my bibliography<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>Hi,\n

Welcome to Mark Webb’s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse – I’ve only recently started writing and there isn’t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0my biography<\/a>, see …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/3106"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}