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Oct 9
Hey You! Read This!

B.H. Rogers giving a talk at Eurocon 2007 in CopenhagenEveryday I struggle to figure out the mystical combination of punchy prose and catchy content to keep my lovely readers reading.

I crack (and break) jokes, I write cryptic headlines, and I insert strange paragraph breaks all because I love you and I want you to keep reading. Today, I found some writers with some more concrete advice about web writing.

First of all, The Urban Muse has Five Hints for Writing Headlines, a primer on how to polish even your first lines into glittering, deadly copy. To keep yourself from going crazy with all this short short writing, try playing around with the fine art of flash fiction.

These short short stories that hardly break a thousand words apiece, and the form was mastered by Bruce Holland Rogers (pictured above) in his web fiction. My favorite flash libraries are: Smith Magazine's six word memoirs, quick science fiction in 365 Tomorrows, short literary pieces at 400 Words, and six-word bad boss stories at True Office Confessions. And don't forget the good folks at TwitterLit, bringing books to Twitter.

 


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Thanks - nice links, Jason!

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