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What is Hint Fiction?

tonydyer — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:37:18 +0000

hint fiction (n) : a story of 25 words or fewer that suggests a larger, more complex story – Robert Swartwood

That’s the definition as given by one of the leading lights of modern ultra short fiction. Does it go far enough? Possibly.

Hint fiction is not a posing of a what-if? question. It’s the barest of bones of a story; beginning, middle, and end. An oft quoted example is by Ernest Hemingway - For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn. A tale of death, sorrow, and moving on, perhaps. You have to fill in the blanks.

It means the reader has to do more work than with most other fiction. The piece therefore becomes a joint creative effort; the writer and the reader in the most intimate relationship of shared thought.

This Lowrider is Already Broken – A talk by Noah Levine from Against the Stream

tonydyer — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:34:18 +0000

Noah Levine is a Buddhist Teacher working within the American Theravaden Tradition. I have found his talk entitled ‘This Lowrider is Already Broken’ very uplifting. It puts forward the position that even when a child is born you know that it will die as you will and that fancy new smart-phone or car or whatever will brake. Every living being will eventually die. Every thing will brake. The universality of impermanence, that is change, is the only certainty we have. So we should enjoy those moments in life and the pleasures we can get from our artefacts, knowing that one day they will be gone, and one day we, our friends, our children and on and on, will be gone.

Take joy in the moment.

Live now not in the past or the future.

NOW

Hint Fiction #23

tonydyer — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:21:21 +0000

Stop talking now. She would never ask again. The gunshot resounded through the mall. Even though it was full there wasn’t a single witness.

Hint Fiction #22

tonydyer — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:20:33 +0000

You have a choice. You always have a choice. It might not seem that way, but even a prisoner on death row has a choice.

Hint Fiction #21

tonydyer — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:19:47 +0000

They came, pushing and crying for attention. One by one their needs were met for the moment. Tomorrow would be the same.

Marks On Paper poetry collection published.

tonydyer — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:54:31 +0000

My poetry colection has been published. Should appear on Amazon soon.

Here’s the front cover

You can get it at Lulu

URL http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/marks-on-paper/18717894?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1

Wondering Quietly What To Do?

tonydyer — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:39:16 +0000

Nanowrimo has been great. I’ve done little writing but have felt liberated knowing that how I perform is down to me. We react differently to pressure and sometimes ignoring it is the best thing to do. Common placed advice can and often does work. However sometimes there is a need for a different kind of strategy, a different way of thinking. Is that not how we break out of the mold, that prison of convention too often trodden. Is it not better to follow the road less traveled?

NaNoWriMo, will I or won’t I?

tonydyer — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:50:03 +0000

In multiple minds as to whether or not to do nanowrimo this year. I feel that it’s that time in my life to put up or move on. I think I must.

Process or Progress?

tonydyer — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:55:09 +0000

Working from front to back

Top to bottom

Systematic, following the flow

Knowing what to do

Worry about “how to” later

Commit pen to paper

Make the idea manifest

Once it’s there in front of you

It can be improved

Work with something rather than nothing

Whatever you want to do

You can only become better by doing it

Again and again and again

Proper practice

Deep practice

Pushing the boundary

Find the limits of possibility

Try the allegedly impossible

Frameworks and structures

Instead of limiting

Can offer support.

A thought for this evening

tonydyer — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:26:02 +0000

It’s high time for high tea

Tummy telling tales on me

Taste buds tantalized by tempting pastries

Tea brewing, masking away

Soon to be devoured in the usual fashion