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On compression: a flash workshop

A story, analysis and exercise (for my writers)

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Jen Knox
May 03, 2023
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I wrote a lot of flash fiction during quarantine. Flash is fun, offers (almost) instant gratification to both writer and reader, and it can break more rules than almost any other genre.

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