An online magazine in the USA and now the BBC are encouraging readers to write 6 word stories or autobiographies.<\/p>\n
The title of this post is an example of one of these, written by Richard Merrington for the BBC site.<\/p>\n
This is such a perfect challenge for those interested in story-telling and the Bardic arts!<\/p>\n
Here’s the backstory as the BBC explains it:<\/p>\n
In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway bet ten dollars that he could write a complete story in just six words. He wrote: “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.”\u00a0 He won the bet.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n You can see readers’ efforts at ‘Smith’<\/a>, the magazine site, and others on the BBC site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An online magazine in the USA and now the BBC are encouraging readers to write 6 word stories or autobiographies. The title of this post is an example of one of these, written by Richard Merrington for the BBC site. This is such a perfect challenge for those interested in story-telling and the Bardic arts! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4TLSS-2g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}