Comments on: The Essentials of Micro-Fiction

By: Marie-Louise Galang

Marie-Louise Galang — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:04:00 +0000

A good micro-fiction reminds me of an adequately made chocolate truffle. Instead of the short story brownie, or the novel rich chocolate cake, this particular style of literature is quite bite-sized, but fully flavored by a distilled plot. And when you take the entire truffle into your mouth, biting into the middle of the candy, you take in a fullness of a story; its outer layer the fiction’s exposition, the taste of the center its climax, and taking in the flavor of the entire truffle is your resolution. All in one little package.

By: Scastro

Scastro — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:48:00 +0000

This was the first time I heard about Micro-fiction. Reading this article I learned it somehow like a short story. It has to be under 400 words its usually around 250 most of the time. In a micro-fiction is good to use imagery that way the audience can picture whats happening in the micro-fiction, it’s good to also let the reader have a perspective of it’s own on the short story.

By: daniela

daniela — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:27:00 +0000

When I first read this it seemed to me like a how-to article. I didn’t really know what Micro-Fiction was, and this was really helpful. From this i got that Its not supposed to be a story but a resonance. It also encourages to use imagery, since there isn’t a lot of words they should be able to have provide a mental image. I though it was really interesting to see how they said that to write a successful Micro-Fiction you have to be open to criticism.

By: Myriam Diaz

Myriam Diaz — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:55:00 +0000

This is my first time learning about what a micro-fiction is and from this article I have learned that when creating a micro-fiction it must drive the reader into asking more questions, having to read more than once, and be able to make the reader picture what is being said. Another thing that I took from this article was that it must be under 400 words and the words must be chosen carefully. Also to keep it short and sweet and to the point and to not scramble all the ideas into one, but keeping a basic idea of what you are trying to say. Its kind of like a short story, you have to be precise in what message you are trying to send out and make the reader want more but not overdue it with too much information so that it flows smoothly.

By: Biniguez

Biniguez — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:43:00 +0000

I had never heard of micro-fiction before reading this article. At first I was very confused when I read this article because I was not understanding all the examples they were mentioning. After I read it a second time I understood it more clearly. I really liked how they gave examples and I find micro-fiction very interesting. I like how they make it confusing so that you have to read it several times and get your own meaning out of it.

By: Pfurriel

Pfurriel — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:28:00 +0000

Micro fiction is new to me, but from what i read i do find it very interesting. I like how its confusing and a little hard to understand at first but when you do understand it, it makes a lot of sense.

By: Amercado

Amercado — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:25:00 +0000

After being told about the micro fiction i thought it was a short story that had to explain the reasons why we chose to create the automata that we did. I thought it was similar to a short reflection. But after reading “The Essentials of Micro-Fiction,” i realized that it’s something a bit more complicated. The examples from “Soul-Stirring Lanugage” gave me the impression that i should write my micro fiction with a creative vocabulary and a mysterious stlye of writing. I thought this reading was useful in informing me about the specifics, such as the length and the different styles of writting to choose from. I really enjoyed reading the example “Play Against Expectations,” it was simple yet very intresting and left the reading begging for more. I can’t wait to start my own and hope it turns out great.

By: Andrea Rangel

Andrea Rangel — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:44:00 +0000

After reading this, I feel like I have already read a few micro fictions before, and I personally enjoy them a lot. I think it’s interesting how such a short amount of writing can say so much. I think it would require time and skill to create a micro fiction, though, because you only have a length frame of about 400 words and in that frame, you must have an impacting message related to whichever larger story/conflict. I also feel that reading a micro fiction would be similar to reading poetry in the time it would require to analyze that content and re-read to decipher the message. I feel it would be a cool thing to try and write a micro fiction. It seems like a fun challenge.

By: Miranda Fleming

Miranda Fleming — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:24:00 +0000

I had only heard about micro fictions from certain books (like the short stories at the end in the original book “Last Man on Earth”) but I never entirely understood what their purpose was until I read this article. I now see that its purpose is to be short but impacting. It is a hard to be able to put a whole story into such a short amount and have it be able to have a place plot and characters while still having it make you emotional and captivating while you read it.

By: Jeremias Dulaca

Jeremias Dulaca — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:14:00 +0000

Micro-fiction is completely new to me, but from what I see it seems very interesting, and something that I would want to do a lot in the future. I like how it has to be crafted very carefully in order to convey a message in a short span. It’s definitely different for me who’s a guy who likes to put every possible detail into a story.