Write a 100 Word Story TODAY - Microfiction Writing Exercise
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
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If you're brand new to microfiction, this video has everything you need to get going.
I've given you a definition of microfiction and a. quick idea of what it's all about, then we complete a 100 word story together.
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Saved for later. For the record, I loved your story. Crazy how visual and emotional a short piece can be.
Thank you so much! Absolutely, that's what I love about microfiction too.
I actually have a book called "Nothing short of 100" a selection of 100 stories from various authors and are 100 words long. I recommend this book alongside the others.
Great recommendation, thank you!
This was amazing! I'm loving this type of videos - In my experience, the most actionable videos on writing craft!!
It went to 170😬 but I need to edit it and maybe it'll get in the range. But really, loved the exercise so much - it came out so wonky and so unhinged!
:No fruits for him:
He was pawing at the glass windows, a little fogged up beneath his shallow breaths. He'd always liked to watch rain drops lit under the streetlights, trickling down their sedan's windshield and petting the unruly grass bed to sleep. But that monsoon, he hadn’t been watching the rain.
Tonight, since the thunder started to rumble, he'd been at the glass window, looking at the coldly lit silhouette of him, laying behind him on the unvarnished dining table. Voiceless on the glass and if he tuned his hearing to the rain falling on the terracotta roof. But he could hear it, his gasps, slipping between the crevices of the bunch of bananas he had put on his face and with the weight of the mesh of grapefruits draped on his chest. He said it helped him, the weight, to feel more grounded. But he couldn't ever tell the difference, even if he'd let him close. He wouldn't let him see his face.
He tuned his hearing to the drizzle once again. There were no grapefruits. There were no bananas for him.
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Please share any reviews or suggestions!
170 is okay! There's no hard limit on 100, just my suggestion.
What I like about microfiction is that it often feels like one moment, almost frozen in time, a sort of hyper-focus on a few seconds of someone's life, and I think you have that feel in your story. Also rain just makes everything more atmospheric. Gotta love a bit of rain!
I like it! Had to limit my library from 11 cases to 4 shelves in 1 due to reasons. Random number news. I used several news sites and finally my mind apparently picked up Police Vehicle. I wrote a tiny futuristic? thing about a teen being carted off to new horizons.
Fantastic! Any way to come up with an idea is a good one I think ☺️
this ended up being a fun little exercise for me, I haven't written in quite some years, but I'm still pleased with what I ended up with so thank you :)
Excellent, I think even if you don't plan on writing microfiction all the time, or regularly, you can still benefit from it as an exercise from time to time. Glad you ended up with something you're pleased with!
Oh! This looks like fun 👀. I'm going to bookmark to try it out soon. Thank you for the video ❤ and inspiration
It’s fun! Even if you’re not too into microfiction as a regular thing, it could be a little palate cleanser I think!
That was great! Thank you! My piece came out to 103 words. I wrote it with one story idea, but as I read it over and exchanged some words with keywords from my inspo page, it took on an entirely different expression. Big fun!
It is fun isn't it! I'm glad it worked for you, even if it ended up changing direction. Mine changed too, but turned out alright generally.
Mine turned out 66 words and I like it. Thank you for the video :)
Fantastic! That works. Thanks for watching!
Other microfiction writers I'd recommend: David Gaffney ('Sawn-off Tales'), Tania Hershman ('My Mother Was an Upright Piano') and Lydia Davis. Thanks for the suggestion of Laura Besley, she's a writer I've not encountered before. 👍
Hugely helpful, thank you for this ☺️
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Loved this! ❤❤❤
It went great, though I have around 15 non fiction books on my book shelf 😂 I ended up writing about an experience I had with my father around 40 years ago in 3rd person perspective. It was fun, and really helped me come up close to that moment in time once again!
That's great! It's quite amazing what you can do in 100 words I think. I'm glad it came out as something so meaningful in your case, too. That seems like the perfect kind of subject matter for microfiction.
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This was fun. I wrote an escalating horror, and it rhymes more than it should. Then it ends like a series finale. 🙃
Fun is always the goal! Sounds like you've maybe got some prose poetry on your hands there even!?
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I really enjoyed this and will try it out. Your 100 words needs extending as I want to know what happens next, and where the RV is going, and why he needs to get out of the city 😃
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Loved this exercise! I'm an artist by trade, but dabble in writing, and I've found that writing microfic scratches the same itch as composing a still image for an illustration. It's the same idea of suggesting a bigger story through a single snapshot.
Exactly yeah! I can definitely see the comparison there
Jorge Luis Borges comes to mind to show the potential of the Micro Story.
This was helpful, my writing goal is to write 1k a day but my writing feels flat and uninteresting so far I’ve managed 300 words on a good day but I need to go back to writing 100 words exactly.
Turns out there is a reason to colour code your bookshelves! I always thought those people were psychopaths. They were micro-fiction writers all along! Who knew?