Flash Fiction Competition

Flash Fiction 
competition!
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This lesson contains 15 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 7 videos.

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Flash Fiction 
competition!

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6 entries
Merletcollege can send 6 stories 
to the jury!

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AHA-moment
  • Think of interesting things that you have learned from today's or yesterday's lessons (any subject).

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AHA-moments

Slide 5 - Mind map

Pick one and and answer these questions:
  • What strikes you about the AHA moment? 
  • What moved you? Or made you think?

     Look at the AHA moment differently:
  • What if it took place in a different time?
  • What if I look at it from a different perspective:
      a different person, thing?
  • What if it took place in a different place?

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Flash Fiction rules
  • Spark description: max 75 words.
  • Story: max 150 words.
  • Hand both in before Februari 11th

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SOAP - basics of flash fiction
  • Specific: 1 place & time, 1 event, max 2 characters (112).
  • Omission: leaving things out for the reader to figure out.
  • Action: in medias res.
  • Precision: vocabulary & grammar. 

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Examples
last year's winners

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