Many remember a story told by Arthur Clarke where during a lunch Hemingway said that he can write a whole short story using only six words. The story written on a table-napkin is here: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn”. This joke inspired multiple radio shows, Reddit, Twitter, and editors to start challenging their fans asking to write short stories.
One of the first challenges was thrown out by SMITH magazine. The answers from their readers resulted in the book “Not Quite What I Was Planning”.
WIRED magazine also made a similar challenge asking famous sci-fi, horror, and fantasy writers to make up a short fiction story consisting of 6 words. Many famous personalities participated in this small friendly competition including Arthur Clarke himself, Neil Gaiman, and Harry Harrison. Obviously, these professionals wrote a whole bunch of ultra-short stories.
Some of them I will quote in my first comment and we all can play this interesting game!
Tell about your life using only 6 words! Let’s go!
Better follow richman to get rich
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Can't think of something to write.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I was Hercules, No! Another Hydra-head
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Had kids, they died, I live.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I love drum and bass music.
Or, better yet:
You can sleep when you're dead.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I play guitar and hack code
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Tell me: why should I try ?
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
O no, she is coming earlier!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit