What is a Vignette.

by Gordon Bailey
28th June 2013

Hi there this is one for all my fellow writers can you please explain to me what is a Vignette, and how, when, and where would you use it. I am under the belief that it is a form of Flash fiction, am I right or am I way off.

For some reason It was mentioned in an article I was reading and I meant to look it up on google, but I far prefer the views of my fellow writing friends.

So can you help me with this one.

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As far as I can recall, a vignette is used as a short piece of writing to describe a setting/character or an event. It is often used in script writing.

I suppose it could be considered to be similar to flash fiction...

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