{"id":12156,"date":"2022-10-29T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=12156"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T17:27:49","slug":"50-word-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/50-word-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"50-Word Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/50-WordStories.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12157\" width=\"431\" height=\"93\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA 50-word story\u00a0is a piece of fiction written in exactly 50 words. That doesn\u2019t mean \u2018roughly\u2019 50 words; it doesn\u2019t mean \u2018as close to 50 words as possible\u2019; it doesn\u2019t mean 50 words or fewer. It means\u00a0exactly 50 words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with any other form of fiction, a\u00a050-word story\u00a0should have a beginning and an end, a plot and\u00a0character development (even if they are only implied), and a theme, meaning, or purpose of some sort. Many <a href=\"http:\/\/fiftywordstories.com\/stories\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/fiftywordstories.com\/stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">50-word stories <\/a>are built around twists or climactic moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiftywordstories.com\/about\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/fiftywordstories.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">50WS\u00a0<\/a>posts two reader-submitted stories every weekday.\u00a0To submit your stories for possible publication, see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fiftywordstories.com\/submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submissions page<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA 50-word story\u00a0is a piece of fiction written in exactly 50 words. That doesn\u2019t mean \u2018roughly\u2019 50 words; it doesn\u2019t mean \u2018as close to 50 words as possible\u2019; it doesn\u2019t mean 50 words or fewer. It means\u00a0exactly 50 words. As with any other form of fiction, a\u00a050-word story\u00a0should have a beginning and an end, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[1854,1190],"class_list":["post-12156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-50-word-stories","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3a4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12159,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions\/12159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}