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Hey, it’s Shannon from Flash Fiction Magazine 🤓 Have you ever wondered why some scenes stick with readers for years while others fade from memory before they even finish the book? It’s not magic or luck. It’s craft. The scenes we remember most vividly all have specific elements that make them impossible to forget. This is exactly what Finnian Burnett will be teaching in our Scene Stealers workshop this Sunday, April 13 — how to craft scenes that lodge themselves in your readers’ minds and...
Authors Only In this episode of, Shannon writes in bed… I will be honest… I phoned this one in because I have been working a lot, and we had glorious t-shirt weather today. It was delicious. No regrets. But you don’t need a fancy intro, do ya? Intros are for amateurs! Let’s get to the good stuff… Lisa Hislop will help you turn those half-baked vignettes into stories and teach you the difference between the two. If you have questions, bring them to Ask Me Anything about Editing with Lisa. You...
Authors Only Hey, it’s Shannon! It’s 23:00. (Why do I always push it until the last minute?) Anyway—you want the Seven Secrets of Publishing Short Stories, right? Last Saturday, we hosted an event in the Authors Only Collective that is usually reserved for members but was too valuable not to share. I’ve been trying to help authors understand what Charlie Fish discusses in his presentation for years, but I never compiled everything in one place. Now, I have a resource I can point authors to....