thealtruismsociety Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html Almost Haiku-ish. This is a very fun exercise. My favorite Sci Fi author David Brin posted this on his FB page. I offered. "Progenitors uplift, library stagnates, galaxies reduce." Of course it was tailored to him if you've read his novels but he replied he liked it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve E Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Here's one from an old Tracy & Hepburn movie script: "Kiss me stupid." And he does. See, there's no comma after the "me". Get it? Why do I try. - Thoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealtruismsociety Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Selling clothes; Always close to close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealtruismsociety Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Here's one from an old Tracy & Hepburn movie script: "Kiss me stupid." And he does.See, there's no comma after the "me". Get it? Why do I try. - Thoth. I get it, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealtruismsociety Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Destined for greatness; Where to start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve E Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 "He eats jelly worms and dies." - An 11-year-old neighbor. (Kids today still know about jelly worms? It's nice to know my generation has passed along something lasting.) - Thoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealtruismsociety Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Hmm the two I wrote were not STORIES though, I'll have to work harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealtruismsociety Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Butterfly's killed in time change history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve E Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Tonight my zombies eat your brain. Young entrepreneur makes good in Hell. Puppies can cure colon cancer: insert. Storms are just the gods urinating. Urine floods wipe out Los Angeles. You know, with a dark enough sensibility, these six word log lines come pretty easily. - Thoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealtruismsociety Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Tonight my zombies eat your brain. Young entrepreneur makes good in Hell. Puppies can cure colon cancer: insert. Storms are just the gods urinating. Urine floods wipe out Los Angeles. You know, with a dark enough sensibility, these six word log lines come pretty easily. - Thoth. I think you need to be careful though, a lot of what I posted were not STORIES, they were more along the lines of sayings, or proverbs. The 6 words should tell a complete STORY. THis thought has stopped alot of the ones I was thinking about. It's a fun exercise though huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve E Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Few tell a complete story, even in your example at: Sixwords For example: Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. - Joss Whedon It sure sounds like Whedon. But it isn't even so much a log line as an event description. Well, maybe it's a very short story. Know what? If you Google "six words" you get a whole lot of this stuff. Consider six-word memoirs. - Thoth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealtruismsociety Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Few tell a complete story, even in your example at: Sixwords For example: Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. - Joss Whedon It sure sounds like Whedon. But it isn't even so much a log line as an event description. Well, maybe it's a very short story. Know what? If you Google "six words" you get a whole lot of this stuff. Consider six-word memoirs. - Thoth Yeah Forget Twitter, that's way too many characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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