Adventures In Micro-fiction

Overcoming my negative first impressions and enjoying a new challenge

Mark Starlin
Nov 6 · 4 min read

When I first started writing on Medium, I had no idea there was such a thing as micro-fiction or flash fiction. Actually, I was pretty ignorant about writing in general. I didn’t know the jargon. Drabble, pantster, WIP, alliteration, protagonist, prose? I thought we were using English here…

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