Commentary On Flash Fiction

The way I started to write my flash fiction was by coming up with an original idea inside our topic of Halloween. I came up with the idea of people having a go and do an ouija board through researching Halloween and seeing someone talk about them. This inspired me to do my story about one that went wrong. I hate reading a story with a boring start and with the short word count so wanted to get straight to the dilemma of a story and to the exciting part. I decided that by starting with the capital letters and explanation marks with “BOO!!” it made it exciting from the beginning. I then put Mona saying the idea of playing in fairly soon to get to the problem faster.

I organised it in the structure of beginning, middle and end because I wanted it to be realistic so it could appear more like a real life story which would make it scarier. Through making it more realistic I wanted my characters to be similar to real life and I feel like I did this through having a more dominant person in the group as that is realistic.

In my story I put text in italics to be Mona’s thoughts. The reason I did this was to contrast her character from how she appears to the other girls to her feelings in the inside to the reader so they would understand her character better. By doing that I showed that she isn’t completely fearless and she can be wrong like everyone else.