Ravished in a Flash 2.0 - The Flash Fiction Tournament is Back

[AdmiralPiet]

@AdmiralPiet It's pruning shears for the cherry trees then?

Indeed. I hope it does not hurt the text too much.
221 words does not sound like much, but when it is one sixth of the story that needs to go...

[SoftGameHunter]

Was it Hemingway that offered up this ultra-short six-word story? 'For sale: baby shoes. Never worn'

We could try for a similar ultra-flash theme, maybe in the vein of the two-sentence horror story. "On our wedding night, I marveled to my 'virginal' bride about how tight she was. She told me the ER docs used WAY too many stitches that one night last month." 31 words, but no cherry picking.

[Shocker]

Was it Hemingway that offered up this ultra-short six-word story? 'For sale: baby shoes. Never worn'

We could try for a similar ultra-flash theme, maybe in the vein of the two-sentence horror story. "On our wedding night, I marveled to my 'virginal' bride about how tight she was. She told me the ER docs used WAY too many stitches that one night last month." 31 words, but no cherry picking.

I think we had done this at RavishU once or twice, trying to convey a scene in less than 125 words.

Always fond of the quote attributed to Mark Twain “I write you a long letter because I don’t have time to write a short one”

[Claire]

@Shocker, @Lucius, @RapeU, @SoftGameHunter, @LtBroccoli, @AdmiralPiet, @Blue, @VictimEyes, @rdodger, @Vile8r, @Writers_Bloque, @DayDreamNights, @Verbal13

One contestant (not saying who to maintain anonymity obviously) asked me whether they can add images to their story. We have no explicit rule for or against that so I wanted to ask the other contestants what they think.

[RapeU]

Using images for story contests can easily turn into “who can find or generate the best picture” contest.

[rdodger]

Images wouldn't matter to me, I'm text-oriented.

[Shocker]

The expression an image is worth a thousand words, so that ought to eat up the entire budget for the flash contest.

I’m not a big fan of pictures in stories, for me it disturbs the flow of my reading.

[SoftGameHunter]

I'm not keen on pictures for contest stories. They give an unfair advantage, plain and simple. I've seen this argument play out on other boards where people tried to claim that if having a picture is an advantage then the story wasn't that strong in the first place, or that you should be secure enough in your text to not be worried about other people's pictures. I don't accept such arguments in the slightest. Unless we wanted to run a combined picture-story contest, I would not favor allowing this.

I would have no objection if they add the picture after voting ends, of course.

[Vela Nanashi]

I am with SGH add picture after voting, that way each story stands just on the text, but I am not in this contest, so I do not have a vote on this.

However maybe we should also have a contest where it is said from the top that images are okay, or even an image heavy story contest, but flash fiction is so extremely limited for those who can only work with text to describe detail. Images are indeed worth many words and require no clarity in writing or work from the readers who have sight.

[MasterDebater]

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