I just sent in my attempt and was surprised at just how difficult it was to condense my ideas into a 200 word limit.
More difficult even than poetry which can be freed up by the form you chose to use.
But with fiction I found the constraints that much tighter. Which I did not expect. Makes it a great writing expercise though, that's for sure.
Has anyone else experienced this or do you find Flash Fiction easy to write?
I also tried for the Lascaux Review competition (still open for one day if anyone else wants a go). You know you want to ;-)
My entry is here:
http://www.lascauxflash.com/2013/03/206-halcyon-day.html
They use images as prompts, which seemed to help me quite a bit.
I will be sending my entry in today and I actually enjoyed putting it together.
It is not easy but it is a challenge to compress a short story down to its bare bones. And still have a Start, a Middle and an End.
I would heartily recommend it as a great exercise in word constraint.
Good luck to everybody entering
Very difficult! trying to squeeze a setting, plot, characters and a theme into 200 words is tough! best of luck :)