Hello my friends, today begins a collaborative Terror Tuesday adventure that will be running for a couple months.Teaming up with me for the micro horror fun is author Patrick Rahall. Illustrations are created by me, and the two sentence stories are written by Patrick.
Terrible Magician:
I tried telling the police that I was just a terrible magician. It was a lame excuse, I know, but how else could I explain all the women who were sawed in half in my basement?
Check out some more of Patrick’s work:
He Blogs: pjrahall.blogspot.com
He’s Published: Patrick Rahall’s Books on Amazon
He writes about the Paranormal: paranormal-association.com
Oh, now this is interesting — 2 sentence story. These might just generate some really slick openings for fully-fleshed pieces. Or, maybe a great exercise to help come up with an opening: tell the story in two sentences…..
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Yeah, this makes me wonder just how much story even one paragraph could hold, if this style of information economy were used.
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I recently bought an issue (May/June) of Writer’s Digest that has an article on flash fiction that I’ve skimmed and seems to address this nicely. It is on my list to dive into it and come up with some drill exercises out of it. This two-sentence business seems like another good one.
As you may recall, gaining some skill in this short fiction thing is something I really feel I need to do to improve as a writer.
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Yeah, this makes me wonder just how much story even one paragraph could hold, if this style of information economy were used.
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I’m glad Patrick and I were able to bring a new format for practicing top you. 🙂
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