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By Robert Swartwood on May 13, 2010
Last week I received an interesting and well thought out e-mail from Simon Thalmann regarding Hemingway’s six-word story. In fact, the e-mail was so interesting and well thought out that, with Simon’s permission, I’m going to reprint a good chunk of it here: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the “For Sale: Baby shoes, [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on May 10, 2010
First, I want to thank everyone again for helping spread the word and participating in the contest. We had a great turnout this year, with just over 350 stories submitted, which isn’t too bad considering the contest was open for just two weeks. There were a lot of great entries and it was hard to [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on May 6, 2010
So what was the point of yesterday’s post besides a nice blast from the past? To give you an idea of how advertising have changed over the past twenty years. It’s different, yet in a way it’s the same. As our culture has evolved, so has the way companies try to sell us stuff we [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on May 1, 2010
A big thanks to everyone who helped spread the word and who entered the Hint Fiction Contest. I tallied up the eligible entries and there are just over 350! (In retrospect, last year for the first contest we received a little over 200.) Last year Gay Degani and I worked very hard to narrow down [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on April 28, 2010
I haven’t had a chance yet to count the number of entries so far to the Hint Fiction contest, but there are a lot and more coming every hour as the deadline approaches. Remember, the contest ends this Friday at midnight here on the good ol’ east coast, so make sure you get those submissions [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on April 26, 2010
As of this moment, just over 140 stories have been submitted to the Hint Fiction contest. And I’m seeing the same trend in stories that I saw for the last contest and for the open reading period: murder and killing. It got so bad that at one point on Friday afternoon I sent Ben White [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on April 21, 2010
Titles are important — be it a poem or a story or a novel — but they are even more important in creating effective Hint Fiction. Last year I talked briefly about the importance of titles but Ben White just recently did a blog post where he says it even better: The angle for a [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on April 19, 2010
Last year the term “hint fiction” was born in the essay “Hint Fiction: When Flash Fiction Becomes Just Too Flashy” published at Flash Fiction Chronicles. To commemorate the occasion, a retrospective essay, “Hint Fiction: One Year Later” appears at FFC today. A lot has happened in the past 365 days, and I want to thank [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on April 5, 2010
Look at it. Study it. Memorize it. Love it. Because come November, you are encouraged to go into your local bookstore and buy multiple copies of it. Major thanks and kudos to the art department at Norton; they came up with a fantastic concept for the cover, and I couldn’t be happier. Hint Fiction’s birthday [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on March 10, 2010
The Hint Fiction anthology isn’t slated to be released for another eight months, but it’s already up for pre-order at Amazon for those of you kind generous folks who like to pre-order now so you’ll be pleasantly surprised months down the line when a package arrives at your place. According to the product details, the [...]
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