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What to Write This Week (2)
What to Write This Week

What to Write This Week (2)

A flash fiction you can write in a single sitting, inspired by Franz Kafka

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Michelle Richmond
Apr 24, 2023
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Welcome back to our second installment of What to Write This Week. Today we’re finding inspiration and a clear, effective structure in a 128-word story by Kafka.

Read the story: Give it Up, by Franz Kafka.

Next, the exercise, plus a seven-part structure to write your own very short story.

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