Criticism / Flash Fiction

ha
or i could just be writing this as i blab, rather that trying to use all the proper shit

haha, some people.  

flash fiction doesnt annoy me

its misunderstanding and rule lawyers that do

I realized after reading the other reviews/comments that I had completely misinterpreted your intentions. It was the placement of it in the criticism category that lead me there…

ha
that i shall do

now its a race against ol’ jack, eh?

fuck him. beatnik trash.

hey hey hey
i loved the beat generation, man
they burned.

loved is past tense

just like those hacks in sweaters.

ive been on the road
knew a dharma bum once

eh
kerouac died like the rest of them
and soon, we’ll join

My point wasn’t to worship the guy, just to point out that even those who people think don’t edit do. Shit writing is like those ugly rocks that sometimes have cool colors in them and make good book ends, you have to crack them open a little.
(sorry about the GG Allen tangent).

”...those who people think…”

Shit.
I should have edited.

i like it raw,
     baby.

kudos to journalism.
i too was senior editor, in time.
old days, come back.

oh fiction84, why are we not friends yet? I too am a jaded ex-journalist. marry me on a cliche beach with cliche words…tomorrow!

friend friend friend

flash is fiction

if you’d read further into my so-amazingly-84 profile, u’d know that i dont believe in revising anything. period.  

and youd also notice that i write for myself and myself alone. no one else is intended to read my stuff. i just do it on the side, but happened to be curious as to peopls results and takes.

and here i am.

but this, my friend, this “piece” as you might call it, is indeed my mission statement as you will.

i write.
for myself.
what comes, comes
for most dreams, like my writings,
flash and burn.

in response to theseus…umm, fuck you? I would feel cheated if I saw major motion picture period…the movies are trash ( I AM the female Holden Caufield). Seriously though, fuck you. The reason everything that is supposed to be “literary fiction” out there is such stomach bile is because all anyone cares about anymore is being published (and the hypocrite that I am, I of course want to be published). We should applaud someone like fiction84 who is writing simply because it needs to be done. Good job 84, I heart you.
kisses,
Lou
PS: have fun finding all of my grammar mistakes, you sick, twisted syntax butt monkey, I’d like to see you write anything that has meaning, perhaps you can analyze your shit since you clearly have your head up your ass.

I got distracted by the phone and the door ringing at the same time and this got sent by mistake.. sorry.  I was going to say.. I guess you don’t like a piece of flash fiction that you read?  My take on flash fiction is that it is 300-1000 words long and that the complete story is written in that process.  No easy task.  If someone thinks it’s simply stream of consciousness without editing, they are wrong.  Perhaps the category ‘rants’ is what is being referred to.  Flash Fiction can be absolutely brilliant if it is taken seriously and written by a strong writer.  

84 was obviously critiquing a genre that people often do take for “rant” when flash fiction is something completely different. I know personally that I could create meaning and drive in two sentences and I’m sure 84 is capable of doing that too…a great reason to pick on a genre that you have a love/hate relationship with. Trying reading it again miss roadhousepress…and open your fucking mind for one second. k, thanks
-lou

From:        
RoadHousePress
Subject:        comment you sent to me
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your comment was not only uncalled for, it was offensive.
just to remind you: you wrote:
84 was obviously critiquing a genre that people often do take for “rant” when flash fiction is something completely different. I know personally that I could create meaning and drive in two sentences and I’m sure 84 is capable of doing that too…a great reason to pick on a genre that you have a love/hate relationship with. Trying reading it again miss roadhousepress…and open your fucking mind for one second. k, thanks
-lou

Ummm if you wanted to call me out for “being offensive” then why didn’t you do it in the public? Maybe you know that some other people would have my back perhaps? Grow some balls, you’re a middle aged woman for christ’s sake.

”...that people often do take for “rant” when flash fiction is something completely different. I know personally that I could create meaning and drive in two sentences….

and I wrote:

...take on flash fiction is that it is 300-1000 words long and that the complete story is written in that process.  No easy task.  If someone thinks it’s simply stream of consciousness without editing, they are wrong.  Perhaps the category ‘rants’ is what is being referred to…”

I was at no time remarking on the ability of 84 to right flash fiction, I was commenting on what she said about flash fiction in the piece and I had no ill will towards 84 at all, not their writing, nor their style. I was relating to what they said, and said what I thought about it.. period.  Not everyone is all charged up with negative energy.  I love writing and I enjoy all kinds of writers.  

But seriously, your personal attack regarding my mind was warranted because?  

And the reason I talked one on one to you is because—this is 84’s page not yours. 84 did not write the comment, you did.  I had no idea that this was a forum that you could write to other writers on.  Why would I even think you could?  As for the middle age thing.. just because I am middle age doesn’t mean that I’ve been on Urbis very long. I did not know any other process than the one I used.  I have however tried to find out.  Now I know that you can use up someone else’s comment page to carry on with another??  Actually I’d like to apologize to 84 for even posting this reply in response to someone else’s hurtful bashing.