Kimberly Gardner

I have this friend, she’ll know who she is, who flexes her creative muscle by posting a piece of flash fiction on her blog every Friday.

The flashes are short, no more than 750 words, on a variety of subjects and genres and seem to bring a lot of traffic to her blog.

And this got me thinking …

Wouldn’t it be kind of fun and interesting to write an entire novel in the form of flash fictions?

And to post it, one flash at a time, here on my blog where people could read and comment …

It would be a sort of ongoing, serialization presented for free to my blog readers.

The serialization would run for as long as it takes me to write the book, probably consisting of around 50 to 75 flashes of no more than 1,000 words each. So that would be one year or so of flashes, provided I stick to the one per week model.

Then at the end, when the novel is complete, I could pull together all the flashes and create a document that my readers could download for free. A sort of thank you gift for supporting me throughout the project.

The more I think about it the better I like the idea. I have even started already by writing the first of the flashes.

Here are the first two lines:

On his fifteenth birthday, Dennis McNeil fell in love. Right there in the brilliant September sunshine, on the sidewalk in front of his father’s art gallery in Chestnut Hill, Dennis lost his heart to a man who never even glanced his way….

So what do you think? Interested?