In: Computer Science
Literacy subject
write about any genre or any specific piece we have covered so far. Possible topics are below.
Instructions:
Your submission should be between 500 and 700 words, and have at least 5 quotes with proper citations.
(NOTE: below given are the main points to be considered for writing the essay)
How is flash fiction different from short story?
· Flash fiction means, it’s a kind of writing on some fictional literature which is of very short length
· Flash fiction is a variant of short story.
· Its shorter than the short stories.
· Short stories may be some brief story which could be read in a brief span of time.
· Its clear from the word, ‘flash’ means very small eg, a flash of light means which is present only for a short time.
· The number of words of a flash fiction can vary from 100-250 words, its always under 1500 words
· While that of a short story, it may more than 1500 words to a maximum of 30,000 words.
· Variants of short stories are: Fable, flash fiction, frame story, mini-saga etc
· Variants of flash fiction are: micro-fiction, sudden fiction etc.
· Even if the flash fictions are of shorter length, it will have all the main elements a story should have like-conflicts, protagonists, problems and their solutions etc.
· But for short story sometimes only some hints of these elements will be only provided.
· There are flash fictions with 6 words,
Example by: Ernest Hemingway
His six word story was: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Six word story means, any story with a word count of single digit.
· Flash fictions are often poorly described with very less number of words, it drives the reader into more thought for understanding the story in its correct sense.
· Short stories are a more described one, the users will get the correct sense expressed by the writer in the first glance itself. It doesnot require much reader participation.
· Flash fictions are having more chance to be misunderstood, it can make the reader think in a wrong way sometimes, not in the way the writer has meant it.
· Short stories doesnot cause the problem of misunderstanding, because it is having enough description, so there is no chance the reader to interpret it in a different way.
· Short stories were the first emerged ones.
· Flash fictions came later from the short story.
Best and known example of short story is Aesop fables by Aesop,
“the tortoise and the hare” is a well known short story from the Aesop fables.
· Flash fictions mainly has story based on one place, because changing place needed more description about the change and the new place, so needed more words.
· While short stories may be set up in more than one place as the word limit is more in this case.
· The number of characters (from 3-4 characters) used in a flash fiction are limited and the background story or the flash backs are avoided or shortened here due to consumption of more words.
· There is no limit for the amount of characters or on the description of short story.
· Even if the flash fictions is very small, its complete and satisfies a reader through its strong plot.
· Short stories are also a reader satisfying one with more descirptions
: this quote describes about a short story and a novel and it also describes about the kind of each of them.
(NOTE: the things written in latin-bold are direct quotes or facts from English literature)