Why are fifty word stories so important?
If you have ever wanted to sharpen your writing skills, I have never found anything that compares to writing fifty word stories, because they throw you right into the editing process: forcing you to cut everything that isn’t necessary and to learn and use new words that convey much more information.
The biggest benefit that I have noticed, is that after writing some of these, when I go on to write a real story, those stories tend to just flow out of me and I no longer get stuck, wondering: “How am I going to write this?” Although, I’m not trying to pretend to be an expert on writing and my first drafts are still just that: first drafts, that I wouldn’t want others to see.
I really miss @miniature-tiger’s fifty word story prompts and I believe that they were very good for the community, so I’ve decided to bring them back to Hive.
...And what better way than to offer a Hive Punk to the winner?
Rules
- Use “Time” as your theme
- Write a story using only 50 words
- Use the tag: #50wordstory
- Add a link to this post
- You can submit up to 5 entries
- All entries must be submitted before this post expires
How to Win
The goal should be to to write the biggest story that you can in under 50 words, this usually takes many edits to find ways to add or imply more information to the story. So try to convey as much information as you can.
Below is a fifty word story that I wrote, using, “Time” as my theme.
The Heist
I knew the raid was imminent when hearing the hostages cry out: “We’re in here!”
So I quickly squeezed my modded portal gun as the swat-team busted in shooting. Blood and bones erupted from my chest while I was hurled into the future clutching the world’s last ounce of silver.