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• Mycroft's Best Practice: Cussin' an' Swearin'

  by Mycroft 5 months ago

  There is nothing wrong with putting bad language or other more “adult” content into your Ficlets. Fiction is a form of art,...

• R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #7: Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation

  by Robotech_Master 5 months ago

  You wouldn’t show up at a job interview in your PJs, with 5 o’clock shadow and halitosis, would you? Of course not. Likewise,...

• R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #5: Edit Yourself

  by Robotech_Master 5 months ago

  One of the most important parts of writing a ficlet is self-editing. With only 1024 characters to get a complete mini-story…

• R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #4: Write Prequels & Sequels

  by Robotech_Master 5 months ago

  One of the greatest things about Ficlets, in my opinion, is the capacity for multiple prequels and sequels. You don’t have to…

• R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #3: Ficlet Structure

  by Robotech_Master 5 months ago

  Some people use ficlets as a notebook for posting their own continuous stories, 1 K at a time. If that’s all you’re using fic…

• R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #2: Comment and Rate It!

  by Robotech_Master 5 months ago

  For every one of my ficlets, I see something odd. Fully ten times as many people read my ficlets as bother to comment or ra…

• R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #1: Paragraph Spacing

  by Robotech_Master 5 months ago

  Open any book or magazine article. What do you see? Paragraphs! Paragraphs where you can _easily tell where one ends and the …

• R_M's Ficlets Best Practices Introduction

  by Robotech_Master 5 months ago

  I was going to wait until a Ficlets forum happened, since I feel that the site really should be for fiction alone and even ch…

• R_M's Ficlets Best Practices #6: Tags, You're It

  by Robotech_Master 5 months ago

  In some newer ficlets writers, I’ve noticed some confusion about how to use tags. Some people don’t even seem to use them at …