Got six words for you now
Reaction to Rainy Day's brave (?) plunge into the world of fiction has been mixed. But, undeterred, we're determined to plough ahead. Part 2 of our horror (horrible?) story will appear here next Wednesday. Why break it up into weekly postings? Well, Dickens was a great man for serializing his works and who could ask for a better role model? To be sure, blog posts are not to be compared to the great wodges of text the gallant Victorians were able to consume, but these are less than heroic times.
Talking about wordiness, did you know that Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words and is said to have called it his best work? Here it is: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Another hero: Ernest Hemingway, American author.
Comments
A famous science fiction short "story" (perhaps by Damon Knight, perhaps not) goes: "The last man on Earth sat alone in his room. There was a knock at the door."
Frederic Brown took this nugget and turned it into an actual short story, "Knock."
Posted by: Angie Schultz | October 26, 2006 7:54 PM