Wednesday, March 11, 2026

5852. Writing flash memoir

 Writing magazine Dec 2025. 
Real Life Great Stories. Short and Sweet. Jenny Alexander. 
 

A flash memoir is a short story from your own life, 500 words or fewer.
No room for complicated plotting and exposition but story must deliver  CHANGE POINT.

The reader has a glimpse of how things have been and how they are changed because of what happens in the story.

TRY THIS

Think of an incident in your life that made you change your mind in some way or take some kind of action. No need be a big thing - maybe you experienced a moment of joy in nature when the world was feeling bleak, or somebody said something kind or mean or you tried something new.

Write on sentence for each of the following:     


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