Creative FocusPilgrim SoulOctober 22, 2021

6-WORD STORY

Creative FocusPilgrim SoulOctober 22, 2021

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A 6-WORD STORY

Creative Challenge: Let’s play with brevity. Create a story in just six words. Focus on the essence of the narrative. Share any experience or feeling. Let it flow. Provide a movement of conflict, action, and resolution that gives the sense of a complete story transpiring in a moment’s reading. Look at the examples below for inspiration.

Why: Creativity often involves simplifying the complicated. Ernest Hemingway was one of many writers who created a six-word story as an example of concise and creative storytelling. “For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” When you boil down the ingredients, you gain intensity, an exercise that captures the essence of a cathartic creative focus.

Examples:

Longed for him. Got him. Shit. -Margaret Atwood

All those pages in the fire. -Janet Burroway

Goodbye mission control. Thanks for trying -Anonymous

Why are you in my selfie? -Adam Gropman

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The 6-Word Story

For this exercise, create a story in just six words. Focus on the essence of the narrative. Provide a movement of conflict, action, and resolution that gives the sense of a complete story transpiring in a moment’s reading.

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