Ficlets: What can you write in 1K?
There are many versions of extremely short fiction, and the surrealists have been finishing each other’s thoughts for decades. But ficlets is a novel idea:
Each and every ficlet is modular in that, though you may have written a stand-alone story with a beginning, middle, and ending, your fellow ficleteers may choose to write a prequel or sequel to your story. In this respect, you can think of ficlets as literary Legos.
The result is a web of prequels and sequels to popular stories, branching out into every genre and spiraling into great levels of absurdity. It’s a lot of fun, and I couldn’t help but contribute a short of my own.
One petty critique:I hate that their menu rollovers are strikeouts.
March 26th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
it’s a fun site, but i wish there was a way to designate that you don’t want your ficlet to be rated (like you can on youtube). i offered up an old bit of writing of my own in hopes that someone might want to continue it, but i’m not really interested in being ‘rated’