All good writing reflects and illuminates life; flash fiction and nonfiction hold up a compact mirror. While it’s delicious to believe short-forms of writing are merely grab-and-go exercises, great flash fiction and nonfiction—creative works sliding in under the 1000-word wire—are, in reality, not any easier to write than 10-page essays, 30-page stories, or 400-page novels. Read more at https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-nonfiction/6-essentials-for-writing-flash-ficti

1. When you hear the old shibboleth that “women don’t have a sense of humor” or are “less funny than men,” your immediate response is_______________. Well, just come out to lunch with us. 2. Were you funny as a kid? Were you funnier (or less funny) as teenager? I was voted Class Wit (female division) in my HS class of 500. 3. What’s the most notable way your life would be different if you didn’t have your sense of humor? I might be imprisoned for murder. 4. If you could have

1. When you hear the old shibboleth that “women don’t have a sense of humor” or are “less funny than men,” your immediate response is ____________. "The men who say that are smart enough to know we are laughing at them, but not smart enough to keep up." 2. Were you funny as a kid? Were you funnier (or less funny) as teenager? I was rarely intentionally funny as a child, but with my flair for the dramatic and insistence on being right, I imagine I must have been a rather hilar

1. When you hear the old shibboleth that “women don’t have a sense of humor” or are “less funny than men,” your immediate response is_______________. I don’t respond, only someone living in a cave dragging their knuckles on the ground could be so uninformed. Maybe they need psychiatric treatment to help with their delusions? 2. Were you funny as a kid? Were you funnier (or less funny) as teenager? I was not the class clown, I was more the class joy seeker. 3. What’s the most

1. When you hear the old shibboleth that “women don’t have a sense of humor” or are “less funny than men,” your immediate response is___________________. Shibboleth is my new favorite word, and I shall now use it to the point of annoyance to those around me. #SorryNotSorry is what I think the kids would say these days. When someone says that “women don’t have a sense of humor” or are “less funny than men,” my immediate response is “how sad for you.” There was a time when I wo

1. When you hear the old shibboleth that “women don’t have a sense of humor” or are “less funny than men,” your immediate response is___________________. If men's humor is the standard, I don't want to be funny. Take it; take all of it. I don't want it anymore. 2. Were you funny as a kid? Were you funnier (or less funny) as teenager? As a fine wine gets better with age, I get funnier. (Which I guess is more like cheese if left out on the counter.) 3. What’s the most notable w

1. When you hear the old shibboleth that “women don’t have a sense of humor” or are “less funny than men,” your immediate response is___________________. "Would it be funnier if I farted?" Women are so much more nuanced in their humor than most men. We get each other, nothing else matters. 2. Were you funny as a kid? Were you funnier (or less funny) as teenager? I think every little kid is hilarious, because they're not self conscious at all. I was probably more dorky than fu

1. When you hear the old shibboleth that “women don’t have a sense of humor” or are “less funny than men,” your immediate response is_______________. (Eye roll) 2. Were you funny as a kid? Were you funnier (or less funny) as teenager? I don't think I was especially funny as a kid because I had so much anxiety! I was definitely funnier as a teenager because I smoked a lot of pot. 3. What’s the most notable way your life would be different if you didn’t have your sense ofhumor?

Carolyn Dever 1. When you hear the old shibboleth that “women don’t have a sense of humor” or are “less funny than men,” your immediate response is_______________. Well, biology is destiny. Have you ever seen a penis? 2. Were you funny as a kid? Were you funnier (or less funny) as teenager? As a kid, I was not in the least bit funny; my face appeared in the dictionary next to the word “earnest.” As a teenager, family life went off the rails, and funny became a survival strate

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