Archive for the 'Writing' Category

19
Aug
07

Put six words together. Mix well.

A few months back, I blogged about Ernest Hemingway’s six-word story.  Imagine my joy when I chanced upon an article on Wired.com in which the editors got some sci-fi luminaries to write six-word stories!

Here are my favourites:

Longed for him.  Got him.  Shit.  – Margaret Atwood

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected.  Civilisation collapses.  – Richard Powers

I’m dead.  I’ve missed you.  Kiss…?  – Neil Gaiman

He read his obituary with confusion.  – Steven Meretzky

26
Apr
07

Six of the best

Today’s Internet meanderings brought me this beauty – a six-word short story, courtesy of Ernest Hemingway’s wikipedia entry (scroll way way down):

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

25
Apr
07

Hilarious

Late one night, when I was just about to fall asleep, my sister came bounding in to my room, and showed me a piece of paper. On it were examples of quite hilarious writing. Thought I’d share them with you :)

1. Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

2. Her vocabulary was as bad as like, whatever.

3. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17
Apr
07

Pulitzer

The 2007 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and I’ve always liked to write, so I read some of the winning works. Then I discovered the Pulitzer Prizes web site, and discovered this very moving story, a winning work from 2006 about a US Marine major “who helps the families of comrades killed in Iraq cope with their loss”.

Reading it, even in a totally removed situation, I couldn’t help crying.

11
Sep
06

The joy of a moonlit night

So I thought this quote was interesting:

“The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.” – the guest, “Toward Winter”, Yasunari Kawabata, 1926

My folks got married on 8 Sep thirty years ago, and tomorrow they are going away for a few days all by themselves.

Thirty years ago, like it was this year, 8 Sep was the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and the moon was round and round.




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