100 word short stories Evidence It would not be long before he was caught Hed have to work fast if he wanted to finish his work without leaving traces of his dealings here He was in a small wooded area at the base of a heavily rooted tree Digging through the damp soil he congratulated him ID: 334005
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Creative Writing
100 word short storiesSlide2
Evidence
It would not be long before he was caught. He’d have to work fast if he wanted to finish his work without leaving traces of his dealings here. He was in a small wooded area, at the base of a heavily rooted tree. Digging through the damp soil, he congratulated himself on this spot, easy to remember and camouflage. Once the hole seemed deep enough, he dropped the evidence in, pushed the dirt back into the hole, covered the hole with forest litter. His girl was calling in the yard. He ran to her, his tongue lolling. She would never know.
.-Amy
DrymanSlide3
Jack’s Walk
Jack walked down the sidewalk on his way to work like he had done every weekday for twenty years. From his plain white house to his plain brown office; nothing really changed, except him getting slower. About to walk through the office door, a thought hit Jack, and he smiled. Today he would change his routine. So he did not walk into the office; he boarded the bus at the corner. He went to the airport. He tossed his brief case in the trash. He looked at a map of the world, bought a ticket to Belize, and never looked back.
–Bob HartnettSlide4
Europa
They were buying their way into the history books. At least that’s how the media was spinning the whole thing. Once life was detected beneath the icy surface of that mysterious faraway moon entrepreneurs across the planet sprang into action to provide the rich the opportunity of the millennium; to be the first to interact with an alien species. Thirty-two of the world’s richest men and their wives boarded that rocket aimed at the stars. Sure, the security outfit was sparse but so was
time.In
just two weeks an unsurprised world would watch billionaires get eaten alive some 400,000,000 miles away
–Robert Poole
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1. Choose a Subject
Fear
Miracles
Youth
Love
Nature
An Object
Ambition
FreedomSlide6
The Plot
In a story as short as 100 words you need a strong plot – one that leaves the reader satisfied that something of interest has been raised, wondered about, then at some level resolved.
Think of the story in terms of a question and an answer. Your starting point can be something quite ordinary that has happened to you, or to someone you know.Slide7
Literary Devices
Use literary devices t
o enhance your writing. In that short excerpt of The Gilded Six Bits, there were 20 literary devices present.
Using
language that appeals to the senses elevates your story telling in fewer words.
For example:
It was cold and bright; the walls were white and sterile and the fluorescent track lighting bounced off of the silver table. It was clear someone would die here.
The luminous operating room erratic light flickered in Morris code: death. Slide8
Begin Writing