Mini-sota-sagas

(from A Whole New Mind - by Daniel H. Pink)

Write a Mini-Saga
Writing anything is hard work. Writing a short story is really hard work. And writing a novel, a play, or a screenplay can take years. So go easy on yourself by writing a mini-saga. Mini-sagas are extremely short stories--just fifty words long...no more, no less. Yet like all stories, they have a beginning, a middle, and an end. London's Telegraph newspaper has long sponsored an annual mini-saga contest--and the results show how much creativity a person can pack in exactly fifty words. Try writing a mini-saga yourself. It's addicting. [Here is one example to hook you]:

A Life
by Jane Rosenberg, Brighton, United Kingdom
Joey, third of five, left home at sixteen, travelled the country and wound up in Nottingham with a wife and kids. they do shifts, the kids play out and ends never meet. Sometimes he'd give anything to walk away but he knows she's only got a year and she doesn't.

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