Tried my hand at it. The guide is essentially for writers who have some semblance of a plot in their heads and struggle to put pen to paper. I don't really have that issue as I use my phone notes...
Tried my hand at it. The guide is essentially for writers who have some semblance of a plot in their heads and struggle to put pen to paper. I don't really have that issue as I use my phone notes to type out whatever comes to mind, but this was a neat exercise.
Annaliese Graham, Precinct 9's most capable forensics analyst, awakens from a deep slumber, finding herself within the confines of a white room, contained in a straight-jacket.
The specialists within the psychiatric facility do not have a name for her distinct condition, penning it down as some spectrum of transient auditory hallucination via the result of a mental breakdown some forty-eight hours ago.
Annaliese, however, argues that she is completely in her right mind, despite what the specialists believe. The internal voices she hears merely suggest directives or transmit information, but she is adamant that she has her volition intact and can go back to work.
A strange letter is delivered to her cell one day, from the "Society of Anomaly Archivists", a place that neither she, nor anyone else in the facility has ever heard of before. Even stranger, she is released on the same day she received the letter, tasked to go to some remote address, greeted by a mysterious benefactor.
Annaliese, alongside this benefactor, who seems to know more than they initially let on, comes to terms with the nature of her mysterious condition and the greater scope of the Society of Anomaly Archivists at large, knowing that she would have to work clandestine, leaving her old life behind and turning a new leaf under the code name "Anagram".
Thanks for sharing! I have a strong desire to play with writing short fiction stories (just for fun and to potentially work out ideas for TTRPGs), which I feel sparsly little time to work on. Five...
Thanks for sharing! I have a strong desire to play with writing short fiction stories (just for fun and to potentially work out ideas for TTRPGs), which I feel sparsly little time to work on. Five sentence short stories feel like maybe a great way to write something without having much time to commit.
I didn't read the article, but the idea of a five sentence short story caught my interest. Here's my attempt: Down on her knees, Alise had worked for almost a full minute trying to free the old...
I didn't read the article, but the idea of a five sentence short story caught my interest. Here's my attempt:
Down on her knees, Alise had worked for almost a full minute trying to free the old photograph that was stuck in between the drawers of her dresser. Once freed, she could see that it was faded, almost beyond recognition, but it showed Aunt Louise, smiling and petting a puppy on her lap. That day came back to Alise in a rush, for it was the only time she could remember Aunt Louise smiling after dementia darkened her life in those last few months. Alise sat on the bed, in the sunlight from the window and wept. She had other errands today, but she would make time to pick some flowers and visit Aunt Louise’s grave.
Tried my hand at it. The guide is essentially for writers who have some semblance of a plot in their heads and struggle to put pen to paper. I don't really have that issue as I use my phone notes to type out whatever comes to mind, but this was a neat exercise.
Annaliese Graham, Precinct 9's most capable forensics analyst, awakens from a deep slumber, finding herself within the confines of a white room, contained in a straight-jacket.
The specialists within the psychiatric facility do not have a name for her distinct condition, penning it down as some spectrum of transient auditory hallucination via the result of a mental breakdown some forty-eight hours ago.
Annaliese, however, argues that she is completely in her right mind, despite what the specialists believe. The internal voices she hears merely suggest directives or transmit information, but she is adamant that she has her volition intact and can go back to work.
A strange letter is delivered to her cell one day, from the "Society of Anomaly Archivists", a place that neither she, nor anyone else in the facility has ever heard of before. Even stranger, she is released on the same day she received the letter, tasked to go to some remote address, greeted by a mysterious benefactor.
Annaliese, alongside this benefactor, who seems to know more than they initially let on, comes to terms with the nature of her mysterious condition and the greater scope of the Society of Anomaly Archivists at large, knowing that she would have to work clandestine, leaving her old life behind and turning a new leaf under the code name "Anagram".
Thanks for sharing! I have a strong desire to play with writing short fiction stories (just for fun and to potentially work out ideas for TTRPGs), which I feel sparsly little time to work on. Five sentence short stories feel like maybe a great way to write something without having much time to commit.
I didn't read the article, but the idea of a five sentence short story caught my interest. Here's my attempt:
Down on her knees, Alise had worked for almost a full minute trying to free the old photograph that was stuck in between the drawers of her dresser. Once freed, she could see that it was faded, almost beyond recognition, but it showed Aunt Louise, smiling and petting a puppy on her lap. That day came back to Alise in a rush, for it was the only time she could remember Aunt Louise smiling after dementia darkened her life in those last few months. Alise sat on the bed, in the sunlight from the window and wept. She had other errands today, but she would make time to pick some flowers and visit Aunt Louise’s grave.