Let’s play a twist on Sue’s excellent post yesterday about story descriptions: write a Six Word Story about a character from your WIP. Watch the video for some killer Six Word Story examples.
33 thoughts on “Your Character’s Life As A Six Word Story”
Grabbed brass ring, fell off the horse.
Dang! That was seven words. Should’ve been: Grabbed brass ring; fell off horse! ?
Late mother a spy, the little sister for president.
P.S. Thanks so much for this challenge, Kathryn! I always admired the alleged Hemingway’s Baby-shoes story and thought that I would never be able to write such a short story. It was absolute fun to allow myself to try. 🙂
Thanks for playing, Victoria! Your character sounds intriguing!
Thank you so much, Kathryn!
And here is a tagline for a non-fiction book I write currently:
Candy Crush meets Big Magic.
A friend helped me with it and it sounds like a story too. 😉
I have three words too much.
Another attempt:
Mother a spy, sister for president.
She paid for someone else’s crime.
She protected wildlife by killing poachers.
Tried growing taller, came up short.
LOL
Little girl: “Please don’t make me.”
P.S. Great brain challenge, Kathryn. A nice companion piece to Sue’s post yesterday about book descriptions.
Switching bodies, not fun at all.
That does sound uncomfortable, to say the least! My body switcheroo would have to be a size 4, just sayin…
How to look with no hands?
(For ideas, I also write Americanized haiku using the traditional 5-7-5 Japanese morae (syllables) every day. Two thoughts–images or idea–are welded together by a kireji (cutting word) between them.)
E.g., How do snowdrops live
and love, because Ningen
often cannot, see?
Snowdrops are flowers that grow and live in the snow. They have a bell that faces down. They stay alive, go on, despite their look of sadness. Humans, on the other hand, often cannot face obtuse challenges and give in. Ningen is the Google translation of the Japanese word for human. (I also use Kiowa or Creek words.) Because is the kireji, the cutting word. So, after writing my haiku, I look at it to see both the positive and negative views of what I’ve said. In the above, I can use the metaphor as it is, or I can look at it and see how people can overcome their sadness and succeed as well as a flower that must grow in the bitter cold of the snow.
Thank you for the six-word challenge. It is a great thing I can add to my daily routine.
Wanted the best, got the worst.
Sometimes cop stories just go that way.
I
I want more time to write.
Hah! And here we are giving you a new distraction! Back to the grind, TC!
Invaders killed family, Brad killed back.
for my ICE HAMMER series
For the Brothers Four series (about Basil’s Leprechauns)
Leprechauns are magical, Troll farts stink.
Oh! Oh! I have one!
Roses are red
Rainbows are colorful
Leprechauns got gold
By the flipping bucketful!
that’s more than six words knucklehead
Oh, Fillii, your’s is exactly six words, and does kind of sum up Gnillii’s part in the family.
How about this one then:
Shut Up! You are both morons!
Okay brothers, let’s be nice, this is the public watching.
I would like to contribute to dis convosation, if I may.
Some Trolls Good, Especially When Food
(the conceptual phrase ‘is involved’ after the statement of ‘Especially When Food’ but is left out due to the limitation to only six words and to pander to the established stereo type that Trolls are considered to use inadequate vocabulary due to lack of linquistic education and generally being known to live in caves or sewers)
We’ve missed you and the leprechauns, Basil! And welcome to Gerald the Troll!
He served. It broke him inside.
Saving her ranch restored his soul.
Thanks for the great exercise, Kathryn.
Back to taxes or I lose.
The last one is great, Suzanne.
IRS loves to receive late filings. We’re sad to kiss refunds goodbye.
Wait. I thought you were dead.
Where’s the rest of this story? Had me at “wait…you’re dead.”
Grabbed brass ring, fell off the horse.
Dang! That was seven words. Should’ve been: Grabbed brass ring; fell off horse! ?
Late mother a spy, the little sister for president.
P.S. Thanks so much for this challenge, Kathryn! I always admired the alleged Hemingway’s Baby-shoes story and thought that I would never be able to write such a short story. It was absolute fun to allow myself to try. 🙂
Thanks for playing, Victoria! Your character sounds intriguing!
Thank you so much, Kathryn!
And here is a tagline for a non-fiction book I write currently:
Candy Crush meets Big Magic.
A friend helped me with it and it sounds like a story too. 😉
I have three words too much.
Another attempt:
Mother a spy, sister for president.
She paid for someone else’s crime.
She protected wildlife by killing poachers.
Tried growing taller, came up short.
LOL
Little girl: “Please don’t make me.”
P.S. Great brain challenge, Kathryn. A nice companion piece to Sue’s post yesterday about book descriptions.
Switching bodies, not fun at all.
That does sound uncomfortable, to say the least! My body switcheroo would have to be a size 4, just sayin…
How to look with no hands?
(For ideas, I also write Americanized haiku using the traditional 5-7-5 Japanese morae (syllables) every day. Two thoughts–images or idea–are welded together by a kireji (cutting word) between them.)
E.g., How do snowdrops live
and love, because Ningen
often cannot, see?
Snowdrops are flowers that grow and live in the snow. They have a bell that faces down. They stay alive, go on, despite their look of sadness. Humans, on the other hand, often cannot face obtuse challenges and give in. Ningen is the Google translation of the Japanese word for human. (I also use Kiowa or Creek words.) Because is the kireji, the cutting word. So, after writing my haiku, I look at it to see both the positive and negative views of what I’ve said. In the above, I can use the metaphor as it is, or I can look at it and see how people can overcome their sadness and succeed as well as a flower that must grow in the bitter cold of the snow.
Thank you for the six-word challenge. It is a great thing I can add to my daily routine.
Wanted the best, got the worst.
Sometimes cop stories just go that way.
I
I want more time to write.
Hah! And here we are giving you a new distraction! Back to the grind, TC!
Invaders killed family, Brad killed back.
for my ICE HAMMER series
For the Brothers Four series (about Basil’s Leprechauns)
Leprechauns are magical, Troll farts stink.
Oh! Oh! I have one!
Roses are red
Rainbows are colorful
Leprechauns got gold
By the flipping bucketful!
that’s more than six words knucklehead
Oh, Fillii, your’s is exactly six words, and does kind of sum up Gnillii’s part in the family.
How about this one then:
Shut Up! You are both morons!
Okay brothers, let’s be nice, this is the public watching.
I would like to contribute to dis convosation, if I may.
Some Trolls Good, Especially When Food
(the conceptual phrase ‘is involved’ after the statement of ‘Especially When Food’ but is left out due to the limitation to only six words and to pander to the established stereo type that Trolls are considered to use inadequate vocabulary due to lack of linquistic education and generally being known to live in caves or sewers)
We’ve missed you and the leprechauns, Basil! And welcome to Gerald the Troll!
He served. It broke him inside.
Saving her ranch restored his soul.
Thanks for the great exercise, Kathryn.
Back to taxes or I lose.
The last one is great, Suzanne.
IRS loves to receive late filings. We’re sad to kiss refunds goodbye.
Wait. I thought you were dead.
Where’s the rest of this story? Had me at “wait…you’re dead.”
Saved, she seeks justice for all.
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