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• ...I can't believe I'm advertising for a series...

  by Mask By The Moon 4 days ago

  I cannot believe I am doing this. Absolutely cannot.

  But will someone do a series with me? I feel like doing something kin…

• Nonfiction: Heard from Kevin Lawver

  by Robotech_Master 22 days ago

  Heard back from Kevin.

  He’s renewed the domain (and it will auto-renew also).

  Apparently there are some people who keep an…

• The Liberation of Hank

  by Jimmy Nebraska 5 months ago

  Hank stands in front of a garbage can in the park. He has pooped in the garbage can. He did not know he could do this until h…

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

  by Mycroft 6 months ago

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

• Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

  by Stovohobo 6 months ago

  All right, it seems Robotech_Master has basically covered every single one of the things I would’ve said, but I have one mo…

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

  by Robotech_Master 6 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 #4: Write Prequels & Sequels

  by Robotech_Master 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 months ago

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