Anne N. Mouse: Blog

I've always heard the definition of a flash story as being less than 600 words, but when I looked on the net there didn't seem to be a consensus other than anything over 1500 words couldn't be considered a flash, and that 1500 words seemed to be considered an ultra short story, but not really a flash.
Why am I writing this?
It seems that I may have the next piece to go up at least hammered out. I'll go and take a nap, then reread it rather than posting it raw like some of the other pieces I've posted recently have been done. The thing is that right now it is weighing in at just short of 900 words. Which sort of pushes the envelope for what I've been trying to do, which is write short hard hitting pieces that if not complete stories are exercises leading to me learning the elements of story telling.
It is just your misfortune that Cal/Denae is rambling around the area that I call a brain lately... :P~

No, not like that, ya dirty minded yutz!
You may have noticed, that even though the blurb for Cocksockett says the stories are not in any particular order that the last few are pretty much actually one arc, spread over several parts. As I told someone I really am trying to learn something here (besides up my productivity) which will hopefully show in the ink I'm slinging from my metaphorical pen...

I'm going to do my best to write a flash of at least 300 words every day for the next month. That isn't a lot really, just 9000 odd words or so. I don't know what it will prove, but hopefully it will do what I want, which is improve my ability to tell a story.

Or at least one reader :) I just received some e-mail from a reader (you should know that I endeavor to answer all e-mail that comes my way) in reaction to four of my poems. Now this wasn't just your standard, 'I love your work' sort of e-mail. No this reader is a poet of high measure and chose to send me 4 poems that reflected what I'd written. If my answers to your messages weren't effusive enough dear reader, I want to say again, publicly, Thank you so much! You made my day!

All sorts of weirdness shows up when you can see an author's stats. For example just a few moments ago my newest story had 33 downloads, yet is in 77 libraries. On the score front it had one vote of 6 yet a cumulative score of 4.97... Like I said strange things happen in the scoring department and how do more people have it in their libraries than have downloaded it? Is that a function of followers? I don't think so... As I have somewhere around 120 (really that many!?) followers....