[header] How to write flash fiction [title] Start the story in the middle of the action. [step] You don't want to waste valuable words setting up a complex backstory or giving a wordy exposition on the scenery surrounding your character. Begin your story at a moment of change; a crucial moment to the narrative. 
Focus on showing your readers the tension of the scene, rather than wasting words describing why characters are acting a specific way. [substeps] Your flash-fiction piece should arrive at its main narrative or plot conflict in the first paragraph-or even the first sentence.