Time flies…maybe in a flash…maybe in slow motion...time

Some people routinely state that time waits for no one. Others state:

Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. - Alan Lakein

If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. - Lee Iacocca

Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real. - Sara Paddison

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - H. Jackson Brown

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. - Sir John Lubbock

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.” - Franklin Field

In a literary context, I generally think about “time” when I read shortened writing namely flash fiction. The style and resultant time it takes to consolidate a full rich thematic story and well-rounded crafted nuances in a few paragraphs. 

The time it takes to edit, re-edit, and finalize that shortened piece of creativity.

The time involved as a writer coalesces thoughts and storyline into what will become what I will simply term, “flash” …a quickened movement of documented literary time.

I also surmise that writers of flash {fiction} know how to manage, manipulate and challenge time and the more accomplished writers do that process the best, and provide us with enduring “short,” short, shortened stories of the imagination or more pointedly, start to articulate an embryonic emergence of personal and a more subjective sharing of experiences, ideas, or theories in “flash.” With that shared…

There are the explorers. The writers, the experimenters who knowingly or possibly unconsciously expand previously held concepts; create illuminating thought-provoking shards from dissecting or exploding established genres, and then compel readers to think through new, challenging and new founded perspectives of established styles.

Olga Abella, photo provided

Olga Abella…writer, literary explorer, essayist.

Challenges.

Abella will bring two works to aaduna’s next issue, “Being Other” and “Ephemeral Pond,” both essays. The challenge for my innate sense is that she has produced “flash” essays, compelling work that is radically shortened as compared to traditional definitions, scope and what we perceive as an essay.

Now Olga may be of a opposite literary position but the centuries old conversations among literary creatives, critics, publishers, and reviewers does help to re-vitalize, craft and mold new conceptual constructs in writing styles and how words, phrases and themes are ultimately structured and offered to the reading market for their observations and acceptance or not.

Olga Abella, flash essay writer?

Read her two works in aaduna's coming issue and then you decide: flash essayist, non-fiction writer, essayist or all the “above.” 

Olga Abella. 

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