Today we welcomed guest speaker Vikki Gemmell. Vikki was a former member of the group and now an established author. Her workshop was on how we write Flash Fiction stories. The stories are normally a 500 word limit, but can be up to 1000 words. She also informed us about micro fiction where the word limit can be as little as saw words. She read out some examples of short stories including 'Ghosts' and 'Crushing Big'.
Vikki set the group an exercise to write a six word story or memoir which proved very challenging indeed. The group then worked in pairs to write a story around an unexpected call. this generated a lot of hard thinking and scribbling from group.
Overall a very informative and productive day. Vikki set the competition details a piece of 500 words with the deadline set for 5th December.
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