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The Long and Short of It

January 17, 2010

Try a One Sen­tence story.
I met a dwarf on the longest day of the year but only had a short friend­ship before I lost his email address.

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Six Sentences, Exactly

January 12, 2010

Can you write a whole story in just six sen­tences: Have a look at The 6S Social Net­work on Ning,
The sub­mis­sion period for Six Sen­tences, Vol­ume 3 – a lit­er­ary tour de force sched­uled to be pub­lished in April – is offi­cially under­way! If you’d like to be part of the action, just send your work […]

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Ficly: 1,024 Words

January 2, 2010

Ficly comes from the peo­ple who started Ficlet (Ficlet is now closed).
We impose a limit of 1,024 char­ac­ters because we think con­straints are good. They make you choose your words more care­fully. They also make it less daunt­ing than start­ing at a never-ending blank screen in a word proces­sor. All you have to do is […]

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The 1,000 Word Challenge

November 24, 2009

You may not be doing so well with NaNoW­riMo, or NaBloPoMo or even IComWe­Leave, but… you can do a thou­sand word post on your blog. It’s a one shot deal. Think of it as 5 groups of 200 words, or 4 groups of 250 words and it doesn’t really seem that bad at all, right?
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One Minute Writer

November 21, 2009

One Minute Writer: You have 1,440 min­utes in a day. Use one of them to write.
Sixty sec­onds are on the clock, you have one minute to write about the topic/ word of the day. Daily writ­ing prompt.

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Say it in One Sentence

November 7, 2009

Tell your story in one sen­tence. Be brief. Get some inspi­ra­tion from the site, One Sen­tence.
If I hadn’t made the rum­balls yes­ter­day, then eaten four of them today, I’m sure I would have made my first attempt at a word quota for NaNoW­riMo today.
What’s your story, in so many words…

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Paragraph Planet

October 12, 2009

Para­graph Planet — Write a story in just 75 words.

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Write a Story in 50 Words

August 25, 2009

I’ve posted before about chal­leng­ing your­self with word count lim­its.
Here is a Live­Jour­nal group, 50 Word Story, where they write a story in 50 words. Can you do it? I read some great sto­ries in the group. Pretty amaz­ing how much can be told in so few words.
Here’s mine:
A tool­belt pulled his pants low, expos­ing his […]

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500 to 1000 Words a Day

July 7, 2009

Inky Girl has started 1000 Words a Day Chal­lenge or 500 Words a Day Chal­lenge for those a bit intim­i­dated by higher numbers.

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Challenging the Limits

July 2, 2009

Chal­lenge your­self with lim­its.
Start with Six Sen­tences. What can you write in six sen­tences, a com­plete story with a begin­ning, mid­dle and end­ing? It’s a chal­lenge. Read what oth­ers have done if you need inspi­ra­tion. Post your work to the site, even if it isn’t really great to you.
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