Saturday, August 28, 2010

Excersize for fiction writers

Write the first 250 words of a short story, but write them in ONE SENTENCE. Make sure that the sentence is grammatically correct and punctuated correctly. This exercise is intended to increase your powers in sentence writing.

On the walls he drew beautiful things. He drew self contained fires, huge animals that people could control by pulling and objects that would be able to send us into the sky. He told of great stories too, of him and the woman he found whom he was in love with. How after much pain, she created a smaller animal that resembled him whom which he hoped would grow even further. It cried and when it did, she would throw it over her shoulder or give him her breast and it would silence. Everything was all so fascinating. Soon he said, although would hunt some more, but eventually, he would find these small things that he found next to the grass and in fruits and put it under the ground. There he had hoped that they would grow so he could settle down with his woman and the small animal that would eventually grow also. He called himself Wheel and although I couldn’t understand him all of the time, I knew that he was different. He was a creator and would soon change our world far past to capacity. It would be filled with easier ways to meet each other, instant food, stable shelter, and better weapons. His ideas always amused me and though I was sure they I’d never see them happen, I felt good knowing that there was such an imaginative mind to come up with all of these ideas. Though he disappeared long ago, his thoughts remained in me even to make me think of what it would be like if I invented something. I couldn’t think, but if I ever did, it would surely be named after him.

One sentence:
The future must have seemed so far away from the caveman

1 comment:

I told him, "I'm a monster" said...

This was like surreal. And I mean this as like, this is not something you would usually write. I really like how your style has changed and I think you should write more things of this nature.