Y'all, I asked Chat GPT to write a flash fiction story... and I am shook. The writing is on par or maybe even slightly above the average of what we see in the slush pile.
If you're a writer, and lot of you are, this is an absolute gamechanger. Good-enough prose will no longer be enough for a decently-good sale. Because why buy good-enough when a chat bot will also write good-enough stories ... but for free.
I have a lot of thoughts about what this means for the industry. And if you're interested, I want to play around with it a little, just kick the tires and see what Chat GPT can do with a really detailed prompt.
I'm really interested to hear how you all feel about this. Come at me with your thoughts about what this means for publishing in the comments.
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We encourage applications from readers of all backgrounds, inclusive of race or nationality, sex or gender, religion, disability, neurodiversity, or other social identities.
Trainee readers will work closely with our senior editors and EIC to learn how to read critically and recognize what makes a successful flash story and what doesn't.
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FFO Reading Series | Katherine Crighton | "Your Hand in Mine, We'll Be All Right"
TW // body horror, self-harm, mutilation, fetal distress
Katherine Crighton reads her flash fiction body-horror story, "Your Hand in Mine, We'll Be All Right," which originally appeared in the January 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
Read the entire story:
https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/your-hand-in-mine/
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New videos will be released periodically throughout our countdown as we meet our funding goals, including readings from authors Lynette Mejía, Matt Dovey, Matthew F. Amati, Sean Vivier, Rebecca Birch, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Ray Yanek, Allan Dyen-Shapiro, Cathy Tenzo, Hailey Piper, Angela Teagardner, Lora Gray, Juliet Kemp, T.R. Siebert, Corey Farrenkopf, Kristina Ten, and Emmie Christie
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Flash Fiction Online October 2021 Book Trailer
Bold. Brief. Beautiful. Fiction in fewer words.
In this month's issue:
- "Editorial: The Darkness Inside" by Wendy Nikel
- "Litany in the Heart of Exorcism" by Sarah Pauling
- "Like a Sunday House" by Linda Niehoff
- "AITA for Using My Side Hustle to Help My Boyfriend Escape the Clutches of Death?" by Aimee Picchi
- "Like Feather, Like Bone" by Kristi DeMeester
- "Flash Fiction Flashback: Face Time by Matthew F. Amati" by Wendy Nikel
Flash Fiction Online offers readers flash fiction stories from more established, award-winning authors and newer writers just emerging in the fiction story-scape. We publish literary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, in a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building.
Flash fiction might be small, but each story packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer. Whether you call this art form a short-short, a micro-fiction, a drabble, or a smokelong, it spans all genres and literary styles.
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What is Point of View?
https://youtu.be/Z24a_YiDFGg
Grad School: 10 Reasons Why You SHOULD Go To Grad School
https://youtu.be/655igbhdmlw
Grad School: 10 Reasons Why You Should NOT Go to Grad School
https://youtu.be/oHBeYYz8b7s
Grad School: MA versus MFA (What's the Difference?)
https://youtu.be/e82nm3Nc1YA
Summer 2019 Updates
https://youtu.be/FkyXDHIqstU
How to Get Paid for Short Stori
