Writing Flash Fiction as Monologues
How do we naturally tell stories? We kinda speak in monologues. Storytellers captivate us for a few minutes. It’s a powerful way to craft flash fiction. In this class, we will examine scripts, plays, memoirs, musicals, 1st person stories, and modern monologues so we can glean techniques that strengthen flash fiction with a strong voice that will carry your reader, and surprise them.
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$30
This 3-hour session will examine the monologue as a way to construct effective flash fiction. Shakespeare monologues, monologues from other plays, movies, songs from musical theatre, etc–are also the way we tell stories to our friends. We talk. We don’t talk often like a typical narrative. We talk to someone. Imagining your flash fiction as a story a character is telling to someone can give it a lot of emotional resonance throughout. For example, a character from your work in progress tells the story of your novel (or a section or scene of the novel) from their point of view and how it affects them, as if they were telling it to a stranger, or a friend, or their partner.
I learned this.
This is what I need to say.
This is what you need to do.
I almost made this mistake.
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We will look at some monologues and talk about their shared characteristics, and how they also often incorporate insight, a turning point, a decision, an epiphany, with an emotional core and a strong voice. We will learn as much as we can from them and write monologue flash fiction of our own.
If you would like to take this 2 hour zoom webinar, email me at jeromestueart@gmail.com
Monologue Strategies for Writing Flash Fiction
One 3-hr seminar where we examine great monologues and glean strategies that might be applicable to flash fiction. We will also be writing our own memoir moments–stories from our own lives–and adapting their strategies for writing flash fiction.
$30.00
Jerome Stueart (2007 Clarion Workshop) is an American and Canadian queer illustrator, writer, and professional tarot reader. His writing has appeared in F&SF, Tor.com, On Spec, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Geist, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for a 2020 World Fantasy Award in Short Fiction for “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun” (F&SF). His PhD in English (Texas Tech U) with specialties in Creative Writing, Science Fiction & Fantasy, and Spiritual Memoir put him forever in debt, but has allowed him to live and work as a teacher part-time for more than 25 years, running writing workshops in academia and through city programming, in schools, in churches and online. He also has a background in theatre, history, tourism, and marketing. He was the former Marketing Director of the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon. An emerging artist and illustrator in watercolor and acrylic, he lives now in Dayton, Ohio.
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