Six Word Novel - A Challenge on Ficly - A better, shorter story

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Twitter had nothing on Hemingway when he wrote “For sale: baby shoes, never used”. How many ideas, emotions, and themes can you convey using only six words? Based on the book “Not Quite What I was Planning”, we have often used this in our writing group whenever projects start to get a little lengthy. You can also submit entries on Smith’s website, but I thought it would be fun to do one here.

Rules:
-All entries must me no longer than 6 words. Obviously.
-Contractions count as one word.

That’s it. Winner gets a kiss and a doughnut.

Jape Prophets

Started June 24th, 2009.
Ended July 4th, 2009.
Created by Jape Prophets

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The winner of this challenge is:

One is the Loneliest Number

Author: Ronnie

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Discussion

Jape Prophets

Thanks to everyone who participated.
I’m glad that everyone had fun, unless you didn’t, in which case eat it and make up your own challenge…

I will be choosing a winner as soon as I figure out what you need to do to choose a winner.

Jape S. Prophet

NightMaiden

I was always a great fan of these type of challenges, so I couldn’t resist. :) Lovely challenge, so thanks. ^^

Corwin82

Agree: content should stand alone. Titles that explain too much seem to defeat purpose!

John Perkins

Entered a non-conformist piece. I don’t think it should qualify for the challenge, but it certainly was a challenge to me.

Marli

I found it challenged my boundaries and this in itself created a barrier to further words.

John Perkins

My problem with these is that I have this weird compulsion to nirvana all of my stories. It is a fun and difficult challenge though.

TextMason

I like the challenge, and may try my hand at it – but it seems like some entries smuggle in a LOT of context in the title. It feels a little misdirective for the spirit of the challenge. shrug But what do I know? I’ve only been here two days and all. And anything that spurs good creative thinking is good in my book. :)

Jape Prophets

The level of creativity and inventive language you have all experimented with is intimidating. I thought I had a good one, but I’m holding out for something better now.

ethelthefrog

You can add dots and other ornamentation to bring a story up to 64 chars.

Jape Prophets

…(sigh)

Sorry guys, I didn’t know about the character limit.

Ronnie

Wow. That was really hard! Good challenge!

Trann

So I, too, discovered (having never tried to publish something so short).

Also interesting is choosing a title that is in itself not helping the content of the entry: I expect the body should stand alone?

Pyropunk 51 (PPP LoA)

this is difficult, especially with the 64 char minimum limit

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