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Six Words
by Lloyd Scwartz
yes
no
maybe
sometimes
always
never
Never?
Yes.
Always?
No.
Sometimes?
Maybe –
maybe
never
sometimes.
Yes-
no
always:
always
maybe.
No-
never
yes.
Sometimes,
sometimes
(always)
yes.
Maybe
never…
No,
Examples:
For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn. By Hemmingway
With bloody hands, I say good-bye. By Frank Miller
He loved, lied, and was left.
I saw, darling, but do lie. By Orson Scott Card
Once read it can’t be unread.
Six word stories make me pause.
Discovering himself clothed, he felt relief.
Crossed seas for you. Too bad.
I said I do forever…maybe
We crossed the border; they killed us. By Howard Waldrop
My secret discovered. Plane ticket purchased.
After she died, he came alive. By Rebecca James
There were only six words left. By Gregory Maguire
Thought I was right. I wasn’t. By Graeme Gibson
Corpse parts missing. Doctor buys yacht. By Margaret Atwood
We kissed. She melted. Mop please! By James Patrick Kelly
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. By Orson Scott Card
“I couldn’t believe she’d shoot me.” By Howard Chaykin
One gun, two shots, three dead. By Marcy
There were only six words left. by Gregory Maguire
Aliens appeared, searched for intelligence, left. — By Bob Greenberg
Living is easy with eyes closed
Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends
Not quite was I was planning
When all else fails, just dance
My Life: A Book In Progress
Can’t make a million with poetry
Somehow I became my favourite teacher
That? That was just a story
Strategies to make my novel more powerful:
Must have: Introduction, development and end or present, past, future.
Punctuation matters: , . ; : " " ? ! ( ) [ ] … / — capital letters, underline words.
Use either opposites or repetition or rhymes or same category words or nouns or/and verbs mainly, or use the unexpected end.
Avoid articles.
Try to avoid; Subject + verb + object
GIVE IT A TRY!!!! The best ideas are living inside you.