Have you heard of the website Six Word Stories? Six Word Stories challenges you to tell a story in just six words. Easy enough.
According the the website, the idea of Six Word Stories is based on a bet Ernest Hemingway made with friends. You see, Ernest’s colleagues bet him he couldn’t write a complete story in just six words.
Hemingway came up with this- “For sale: baby’s shoes, never worn.”
Not bad.
Since the theme of my whole crazy journey is GIVING, I wanted to see if I could tell a six word story in which I was the recipient of someone's generosity.
Four of my six word stories:
Nurse Ashley, a green bear…hope.
Believing in dreams when I don’t.
Stopping at exit nine to help.
“You are my queen to me.”
Oh, I want to tell you the full length stories that go along with each, but I guess that's more than six words.
What do you think? Can you tell your story of generosity in just six words? Come on now you writers out there, give it a try!
15 comments:
Love the idea of the 6 word story. Your spin on it makes it even more challenging and unique. I think this will be a project for me and my kids this afternoon.
Okay, here goes:
11,000 dollars for writing and rolls. :)
Okay...I can't stand it. I want to know the story!
Here's my guess- Did you win some grant ($11,000) to finish a book and you also use the money to buy food (rolls)?
Tell me!
Oh, that artwork. You have to frame that. It melts my heart and I don't even know the precious child!
I'm going to think about this. Fun exercise!
Post card hunting friend rescues me.
Learning about joy while financially broke.
:)
Interesting, never thought of doing this. I may just have to try this...
STOPPED. GAVE A SNICKERS. HE SMILED. :))
Ok Lor, I get yours, and it's perfect.
Esther, I wonder why you needed to be rescued...? And it must have been on a trip because you were looking at postcards!
Jenny, Is this how you met your husband? Fun!
Thanks for trying this guys!
Okay Amy, here's the story: I wrote about my favorite Christmas memory (200 itty bitty words) and entered it into a contest for Sister Schubert Rolls (yummy!) last Fall. I found out I won the grand prize and it allowed me to donate 11,000 to our local food bank this summer!! Sister Schubert was really nice, looks exactly like her picture on the package and has a heart for feeding hungry people-Awesome lady! And that's my 6 word story :)
Heidi...HOLY COW! Really? $11,000? That's crazy. I bet your local food bank was blown away.
Confession: I've never even heard about Sister Schubert Rolls! I will look for them the next time I'm in the store.
What a great story.
Here's mine:
Amy's blog comment made me smile.
(And anyone raising as sweet a princess as you've got will do just fine with teenagers!)
Love your six-word stories. But man I'm wordy...I think I would have to give it some serious thought before I took a stab at that!
That is the sweetest thing ever.
Okay, Heidi's story is hard to top. This is such a neat idea. :)
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