Two Insane Writing Prompts

Ever find that you can’t come up with enough writing to fill holes in your stories? Or perhaps it is that you write to much. We all have those problems, but here are two prmpts that will help your editing and storytelling skills.

1. Write Six Sentence Stories!

Website: http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/

At this blog, six-sentenced stories are posted so people can read them and be pulled into their six-sentenced universes. The blog is a winner of the Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers (2009). On the blog is a link to the “6S” website, http://sixsentences.ning.com/, which is part of “ning” social network. The website itself has published two volumes of six-sentenced stories entitled “6S.” They are available through links on the blog. Sign up, write your own, and submit them today. Or you can just relax and your own for your own personal enjoyment and skill-building. Forcing yourself to write logical, short fiction causes you to build essential and solid storytelling skills, not to mention the editing that comes from it. If you can develop great plots in six sentences, you are golden on your way to higher storytelling.

2. Write Six WORD Stories.

Website: http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

I kid you not. At this website (also listed as one of Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers in 2009), you can submit your six-worded memoirs and they will be posted on the main page. SMITH Magazine is behind the project, and they already have two books available filled with real six-worded memoirs: Not Quite What I was Planning: Six Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure and Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak.  Take a look at the very compelling and attractive six-word stories yourself. Try your hand at it and then submit your own. If you can compel a reader in six words, you have the skill down.

Happy writing, whether it be with six sentences or six words! My Best Wishes!

Feel free to comment with your own six-sentenced or six-worded stories! I’d love to read them!