I’ve fallen a bit behind on my updates so this is a couple of days out of date!
Spillwords have published a micro fiction piece of mine called The Woodsman and the Witch – a dark little story to get people in the mood for Halloween 🎃
I also published my latest blog post earlier this evening: Using simile and metaphor to write effective stories
I entered a contest through Globe Soup which was to write a story of up to 100 words on the theme of Darkness. I didn’t win the contest but my story is now published here for you to read. With many thanks to The Drabble for publishing it 🙂
The story is called The World Without Stars and is about how the world might react if the stars all disappeared.
I’ve only recently started turning my hand to flash fiction and it’s an even tricker endeavour when your story is limited to just 100 words. However, I do think it’s teaching me a lot about making every word count and really considering which words are best at communicating my ideas. I do think it’s helping to hone my general writing skills, which will hopefully mean improvements in my short stories and longer fiction over time.
I hope you enjoy my story and if you’re just discovering my website please do check out my other work. I enjoy writing fantasy in particular and my current work in progress is a serialised young adult fantasy novel called George Square 🙂
Caroline Ashley 