Erstellt am: 9. 5. 2014 - 11:00 Uhr
Today's Webtip: 6 word Sci-Fi
Stories don't need a lot of words to be powerful. Some people even think words can get in the way, and tried their best to develop a concise style.
Ernest Hemmingway for example.
One annecdote about the man that has been told and retold is a good (if possibly untrue) illustration of that idea. Hemmingway apparently bet a group of writers that he could write a story on six words that would make them cry. That story?
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
In the annecdote he won the bet.
Even if that story isn't true, it has gone on to inspire a lot of other writers. Not just to be more concise in their writing, but to write six word stories. There is an entire site dedicated to the ultrashort story, www.sixwordstories.net
io9 also seems to be rather fond of it. They have multiple posts asking readers to contribute their own six word science fiction stories.
There is one from 2013, another from last February, and yet another from yesterday.
Any of you want to give it a shot?