{"id":3456,"date":"2015-07-27T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2015-07-27T07:59:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T14:59:24","slug":"baby-shoes-for-sale-never-worn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/baby-shoes-for-sale-never-worn\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby shoes for sale. Never worn."},"content":{"rendered":"

“Baby shoes for sale. Never worn.”\u00a0 Hemingway wrote this six-word tale that has become the ultimate short, short-story.\u00a0 The reader can fill in the blanks. I wonder how many variations of a theme these few words have inspired.<\/p>\n

\"Grant<\/a>Grant Faulkner<\/a> honed his skills to write short, 100-word essays and writes in the August 2015 issue of The Writer magazine:<\/p>\n

“A flash writer has to paint characters in deft brushstrokes, with the keenest of images in such limited space. Shorts require immediacy; they’re a flicker of light in the darkness, a prick, a thunderclap . . . Paring down my writing and focusing on what goes unsaid and unexplained help me build suspense.”<\/p>\n

Faulkner says, about Hemingway’s six-word story, “The story moves by implication\u2013 the empty space around those few words invite the reader to fill them, transforming the reader into a co-author.”<\/p>\n

If this type of writing appeals to you, start writing now. Faulkner’s 100 word story<\/a> will accept submissions<\/a> after September 15. Hone your short story skills now and be ready to submit.<\/p>\n

Just Write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Baby shoes for sale. Never worn.”\u00a0 Hemingway wrote this six-word tale that has become the ultimate short, short-story.\u00a0 The reader can fill in the blanks. I wonder how many variations of a theme these few words have inspired. Grant Faulkner honed his skills to write short, 100-word essays and writes in the August 2015 issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[736,13,6,632,105,329,342,10,16,11],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-100-word-story","tag-freewrite","tag-freewrites","tag-grant-faulkner","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompt","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-TK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","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=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}