Let’s start this year with some flash fictions. It’s not part of my new year resolution list, since I decided not to make any resolution list…hahay. It doesn’t mean that I suddenly become pessimist, but I’m just trying to be more realistic. One of the ‘realistic’ schedules is back to writing.
I read the profile of Shirley Lim in MORE magazine and I was interested in her explanation of flash fiction. FYI, Shirley Goek-Lin Lim is a Malaysian born writer. She is a writer of criticism, poetry, and fiction, and also an English professor in University of California. Her memoir, “Among The White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands” won the 1996 American Book Award. Shirley Lim’s other works that I really curious about are The Sister Swing and The Passport & Other Lives.
Back to Flash fiction. Flash fiction is a ‘So-Me-Kinda-Literature’ if I can say so. I’m….*unfortunately* an inconsistent lazy amateur writer *poor me*. Sometimes I feel stuck with thousands words, that usually lead me to beat-about-the-bush style of writing. Soooo, knowing about the existence of Flash Fiction sounded like finding a system that will legalize my inconsistency and laziness to write *grinning*. Oops,,not in a real meaning.
Let’s go serious. Flash fiction, for me personally, will help me to keep consistent. I don’t have to write thousands words and lost the coherence of them. In flash fiction,,,even a phrase could be written beautifully. I can focus on what I actually want to express. So, this year, I wish myself a huge spirit to write, write, and write…
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