From The London Evening Standard
Blink and you miss it. Those of you with your eyes closed will have let week 50 of Friday Flash pass you by on Friday.
Short, snappy and over by the weekend, it is the latest way to tell stories - and it's spreading all over the world via Twitter.
Friday Flash (fridayflash.org) is a web-based project set up by one writer to spread short stories - getting more people to write and to read them. Based on the concept of "flash fiction" - which Friday Flash defines as a story of 1,000 words or fewer - anybody who fancies a go can bash out a short piece of fiction on a Friday, post it to their blog and tweet it using the hashtag #FridayFlash.
"Don't be afraid to share your work," founder Jon M Strother encourages participants. "You need feedback, both to sustain the desire to write and to improve your craft."...
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