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14 day short story writing challenge11/21/2023 The last challenge was pretty open ended. And yes, I’ll be cleaning it up and attempting to publish it some day in the future. I call it Swan and Phoenix, Beef and Ice Cream (657 words). I like the premise and I like the result. Besides, my brain immediately went to one specific idea: a customer interacting with a cashier by using the products he purchases as his method of communication. I also didn’t want to do anything serious because of the word limitation. I thought writing a conversation that was just body language would be boring. This exercise is meant to challenge you to work with gesture, body language, all the things we convey to each other without words. My writing brain felt good afterwards.ĭay 13: Write a 600 word “conversation” in which no words are said. The value was only in the exercise itself. So, the bottom line: It was fun to write but the result was of no value. And it only works if you know the situation. But I will say that I tried something very similar to what I did for Challenge #7. So I won’t publish it or even include it here. What I wrote for this challenge constitutes an inside joke that only some old friends of mine would understand. Your first kiss, your first kitten, your first day of school, something like that. Here you’ll find the last 3 challenges, as well as my thoughts on the whole exercise.ĭay 12: Describe a first. I completed the last section of this challenge and made it out alive.
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