This is a drabble . A drabble is a short work of fiction that is precisely 100 words. This is my first attempt to write a drabble. I took a blog post from July 2018 titled “How AI May Happen” that was 613 words and condensed it down to 100 words.
Haiku is a specific form of poetry. It is a lot harder to write than it first appears. Here are my first two attempts.
This is to document what I learned about Flash Fiction in the past few days. Depending on who you read, it is defined anywhere from Ernest Hemingway’s six word story: “For Sale, baby shores, never worn.” to stories containing 1000 to 1500 words. According to Wikipedia, there are 280-character stories (also known as “twitterature“); the “dribble” (also known […]
This month’s writing assignment is based on an idea that came to Jane Murphy from the book: “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I read about half the book. It did stimulate thought, but I felt disconnected reading just random writings placed under different letters in the alphabet. Jane’s idea was for us […]