Thaddeus Rutkowski - Flash Nonfiction Funny survey responses
Fiction or Nonfiction? I call my work "fiction," but it is based on my experience, so it can easily be called "nonfiction." I believe most fiction is based on the author's experience--the only question is to what degree the author disguises that experience. Is it harder to write funny or sad? I try to do both. I'm more successful at writing funny, but funny gets you only so far. The winners are serious/tragic, aren't they? Long form or short form? I can write only in the shor
Damhnait Monaghan - Flash Nonfiction Funny survey responses
Is it harder to write funny or sad? For me, it’s harder to write funny, which is kind of sad. Boxers or kickboxers? Legal briefs. Cloned or frozen? No foam, extra hot. When writing is going well… I’m sorry, I don’t understand the question. Desert Island Book? Flash NonFiction Funny, of course. Bio: Damhnait Monaghan is a Canadian who now lives in the UK. Her fiction and creative non-fiction are published or forthcoming in anthologies such as Flash Nonfiction Funny (Woodhall P
Sam Ferrigno - Flash Nonfiction Funny survey responses
Fiction or Nonfiction? Both. A good book is a good book. Who cares whether a captivating story is fiction or not? Is it harder to write funny or sad? Funny. Can't tell you how many time I've tried to be funny, and then gone back to those articles years later thinking "Why did no one tell me this was not funny?" Sadness is in the content; funny is in the delivery; a good story needs a dash of both. Long form or short form? Both. "The Accident" is an amazing piece of flash-fict
Gina Barreca - Flash Nonfiction Funny survey responses
Fiction or Nonfiction? Nonfiction. Is it harder to write funny or sad? Much harder to write funny, because when you write funny, you always have to double: sad, you just have to have people understand one note, but to get people to laugh with you, they have to understand you on several different levels. Long form or short form? Short form. Poetry or prose? Both. Boxers or kickboxers? Neither. Piece that you read and said Wish I’d thought of that? The Bible. Cloned or frozen?
Becca Van Horn - Flash Nonfiction Funny survey responses
Fiction or Nonfiction? Fiction, please. People are so much more honest when they lie. Is it harder to write funny or sad? Any time I try to write sad it comes out sounding like a Sarah McLachlan cover. Poetry or prose? Why not cake and ice cream? Boxers or kickboxers? Knickerbockers. Piece that you read and said Wish I’d thought of that? Speaking of cake and ice cream: James Tate's "The Cowboy." Cloned or frozen? Cloned! My dog would always have a friend. Book you read and re
Caitlin Brady - Flash Nonfiction Funny survey responses
Fiction or Nonfiction? Fiction. No idea what I'm doing in this collection. Is it harder to write funny or sad? Harder to write funny (sadly). Long form or short form? Short or short-ish. Poetry or prose? Love 'em both. Boxers or kickboxers? Long Johns. Piece that you read and said: Wish I’d thought of that? Clickhole's "This Man Lost His Entire Memory. Can You Explain to Him What Leather Is?" Cloned or frozen? My first thought was Dippin Dots. Do you mean plans for my body af
Adam Farrer - Flash Nonfiction Funny survey responses
Fiction or Nonfiction? Nonfiction. I’m lazy and reality writes itself, I just have to pay attention and edit it. Is it harder to write funny or sad? I find that quite often one turns into the other of its own accord. I accidentally wrote a funny story about my brother's suicide once, which wasn't my intention at all. Long form or short form? Long form. I like it when there's room to wander off on tangents. Poetry or prose? Poetry. Prose always feels like a poem that can't adm
Judy Millar - Flash Nonfiction Funny survey responses
Is it harder to write funny or sad?
Erma Bombeck said humor is harder, but she also said, “He who laughs, LASTS”… and at 17 cents a laugh, I’d say buying Flash Nonfiction Funny is cheaper than buying health insurance. Fiction or Nonfiction?
I focus on funny nonfiction now (life dishes out lots of laughs), but people still tell me the short stories in my book Beaver Bluff had them laughing out loud. You can’t fake a laugh. It’s all good. Long form or short form?
I write sh
Leah Williams - Flash Nonfiction Funny survey responses
Flash Nonfiction Funny in Five Fiction or Nonfiction? Nonfiction. We humans are ridiculous. I’ll never run out of material. Is it harder to write funny or sad? Sad, absolutely. Smiling while I write is so much easier. Long form or short form? Short. My dad and I would howl over Dave Barry’s lines when I was a kid. When I joined the newspaper staff in high school, a humor column was my first gig. Poetry or prose? Prose. But I love lyric essays, which split the difference. Boxe