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Flash Fiction World

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Promotion: we've all heard about it, but in today's Internet world full of Twitters and Tweets and multiple Facebook personalities, many authors are having a hard time keeping their message on track. I belong to several professional writer groups and a current conversation at one of the listserves is about the real-life effect of using social media to promote an author's work. There's only so many people or "friends" we can reach and the questions revolve around how to cast a wider net. After publishing last month Freeze Frame: How to Write Flash Memoir I sat down to plot a strategy. One of which was to contact blogs and on-line sites dedicated to flash. That's how I stumbled upon Flash Fiction World . At the site are definitions and examples of flash--specifically fiction. I was particularly struck by the various definitions given for flash.  snip-- I once asked an avid FF reader friend of mine "what is flash fiction to you?" With a smi...