![]() ![]() The novella element, as with a traditional novel, usually encourages us to experience narrative progression, where we greedily devour an overarching storyline. We might say the “classic form” novella-in-flash is something of a Jekyll-and-Hyde creation. In it, he gives us craft tools and exercises but most importantly asks us to reevaluate how we see ourselves and the world. This observation has been in part developed by Michael Loveday in his recent brilliant craft book, Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash (Ad Hoc Fiction). Simply writing for hours a day about my memories and passing thoughts, I was able to find emotionally important and interesting things to say about the life of a teenager who might have been thought to be a fairly boring kid. After having earned several degrees and having taught college English for 26 years, I can say that this is the best assignment that I ever had and have ever seen. All we had to do was write several pages a day. She had us keep a completely unstructured journal. She knew that the best thing for students to develop their writing was just to write a lot. I was lucky enough in high school to take Mrs. What I didn’t realize was that I had written flash memoir pieces for years. ![]() I found great meaning in the passing moments of my own life, but I never felt that I had something to justify or that my life might be amusing. Bruce Campbell and Kirk Douglas wrote memoirs because they had lived entertaining lives. Eisenhower and Churchill wrote memoirs because they had something to prove about what they had accomplished. Another part was that I couldn’t think of an long narrative that fit my life. Part of it was that I thought memoirs were something old people wrote. As a young person, I mistakenly believed I could not write memoirs. ![]()
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