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In a world crowded with short blog posts and the blink-of-an-eye news headlines, more writers are cutting their teeth on flash fiction.  

Flash fiction--short short stories that hardly break a thousand words apiece--has showed up in writing contests around the Internet. From six word memoirs to quick science fiction in 365 Tomorrows, the genre has inspired plenty of great web writers--but it doesn't mean you are doomed to write short short pieces forever!

 
Earlier this week, Katherine Sharpe (who founded 400 Words, a journal dedicated to 400-word short, short non-fiction) revealed that another one of her writers just landed a (full-length!) book deal. In honor of this happy occasion, read and write some short short fiction--it's the new proving ground for writers in the Internet age.

Check it out:

"Another 400 Words contrib, Stephanie Gayle, is publishing her novel, My Summer of Southern Discomfort, this month. Her author page at the HarperCollins website reads: “Stephanie Gayle’s work has appeared in the literary magazines 400 Words, The Charles River Review, Edgar Literary Journal, Ellipsis, and The Fourth River.” How cool is that?"