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| Em_J |
Flash Fictionwww.flashfictiononline.comhttp://resourcesforwriters.suite1...article.cfm/flash_fiction_markets |
| April_Rose |
Great, thanks! I like the look of a few of them that pay!  
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| Em_J |
Yeah, I've just submitted the butterfly story to the first site there. It's American and there aren't too many restrictions. They pay! |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, it's always worth a go! |
| Em_J |
Yeah I think so! |
| April_Rose |
Yep! I like the idea behind the smokelong one! They don't pay but I might give them a go all the same.
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| Em_J |
Ah yeah, time it takes you to read is the same as it takes you to smoke a cigarette! |
| April_Rose |
That's a great ethos!
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| Em_J |
I have no idea how long it takes to smoke a cigarette though!
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| April_Rose |
About 4 minutes! |
| Em_J |
Oh right!
Here's another page I had bookmarked for some reason... http://www.vestalreview.net/guidelines.html |
| April_Rose |
Ah yeah, that's one of the ones listed on that markets site I think. Good to know all these things are out there. Think I'll subscribe to that flash fiction online one too.
Speaking of cigarettes, I'd better go, have to head down to the shop! Laters!
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| Em_J |
Bye! |
| Em_J |
Another one, but they only accept really short pieces.
http://www.chester.ac.uk/flash.magazine/ |
| April_Rose |
Wow, 360, that is short...still, to write a good piece that short is bound to improve writing skills! |
| Em_J |
Don't think I could do it. Not a complete story! |
| April_Rose |
I don't know if I could, it would feel too short, like the one with the religious mother and demon daughter I did yesterday, I couldn't call that a complete story, as such, but it has characters, a plot and a conclusion to the events that occur.... |
| Em_J |
I can't do it, not plot, characters, and conclusion like that, tis too hard! |
| April_Rose |
Some of your pieces have been pretty short, how long was the butterfly one? |
| Em_J |
Just over 500 words. 504 or 507. I can't remember which! The two short peices I did recently were both just over 500. |
| April_Rose |
Well that's still pretty short! |
| Em_J |
Yeah I think that's about as short as I can go! |
| April_Rose |
Don't rule anything out, couple of months back you said you didn't have a clue about writing a short story and then you wrote one and got it published! |
| Em_J |
Yeah I'm still in shock about that! I think of all the times I've tried to get a novel published having written loads of them, and then the first short story I do gets accepted first time! Maybe I should've just done shorts in the first place!
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| April_Rose |
Well it's a good way to get started I think, if you submit a novel and with it there's a list of publications you've had stories in or competitions you've won they might be more likely to look at it.
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| Em_J |
Yeah that's true, should've thought of that years ago see. 
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| April_Rose |
Meh, unfortunately it seems to be one of those things you only pick up as you go along... |