What to Write This Week (17): Kishotenketsu

the form that requires no conflict

If you enjoy these exercises, you might like my self-paced Flash Fiction Intensive.

Welcome to the seventeenth installment of “What to Write This Week.” One way to breathe life into your writing is to experiment with new forms. Of course, there are no new forms under the sun, so what I mean is: forms that are new to you.

For fun and enlightenment this week, you'll be going outside of your comfort zone, writing in a form you've likely never used before. It is a form that can be used across genres—fiction of any length, memoir, poetry, and essays. It's called Kishotenketsu.