Splickety Love is a flash fiction magazine that revolves around quarterly themes, and I decided to submit something for their “Just Friends” issue. While they publish fiction of up to 1000 words, you have a better chance of being selected if you can stay under 700. I wanted to put the odds in my favor, but I’d never tried to write a full story with such a low word count.
I started with two people who meet on a bike ride, but that story currently sits, unfinished, at over 3000 words. A few days before the deadline, I got a new idea that focused on a single incident that changes the way my main character views a man she’s known almost her entire life. The result was Heartstrings, which was published on their blog today.
This is the musical piece mentioned in the story. I must have listened to it fifty times while I was writing 🙂
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I used Pathetique in one of my novels. Good thing it’s so beautiful and easy to listen to 😉 Going to check out Heartstrings. Congrats on having it posted.
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I love writing with instrumental music in the background. This was the first time I’d written something where a piece was practically a character in the story, though 🙂
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