Two years ago, I started writing short short stories ... so short that I sometimes called them scraps ... as part of my transition from commercial writing to literary fiction. Since I didn’t belong to any writer groups, I took a chance and started sharing them on my Facebook author page.
It wasn’t the first time short fiction appeared there (or longer stories on my blog, for that matter), but two things changed. It was the first time in my life I started treating my short stories like an assignment, with equal weight to any advertising/marketing deadlines I might have. Second, it was the first time I was committed to publishing fiction with consistency so people could anticipate a new story every week on my author page.
Immersion has become an inspiration. After sharing the first few stories, I fell into a creative rhythm, and an overarching idea began to crystalize. By supporting my work, you support a body of work ... intersecting short short stories, short stories, and novels.
About
Richard R. Becker is an award-winning American writer. His debut collection of experimental and speculative fiction began as a project to write one story a week for 50 weeks. It broke the top 100 literary short stories on Amazon for three consecutive months in 2022. It also won first place for short stories in the Spring 2022 BookFest Awards and first place for literary fiction, psychological thrillers, and short stories in the ABR Book Excellence Awards.
As a journalist, Richard has written hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, with his byline appearing in the Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, and publications for Simon & Schuster and Paramount Communications. He also scripted a documentary produced with PBS and contributed to five books, including "Beyond Generation X: A Practical Guide for Managers" and the American Ambulance Association's "Public Relations Handbook."
He is also president of Copywrite, Ink. and, from 2000-2020, Richard taught as an instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Specifically, he taught writing, editing, and social media classes. He is married and has two children.
