Writing 101: Day Twelve – Play With Word Count (50 Words)
Today’s Writing 101 day twelve,
On days when you feel stuck and aren’t sure how to write a post, it might well be that your topic and content are solid, but your approach needs tweaking. Have you tried experimenting with word count?
In today’s post, pay attention to the total length of your post: if you usually write posts under 500 words, aim for longer. If you tend to write a lot, be succinct. For those who’d like to aim for a specific word count, here are ideas:
- Write a 50-word story (or, if you feel daring, a series of 50-word stories). Get inspired by the tiny tales at 50-Word Stories.
- Take a look at some 100-word stories at 100 Word Story, or this Reader’s Digest list of winning 100-Word True Stories, then take a stab at your own. Your first attempt at flash fiction? Your last vacation? A fleeting encounter at the grocery store?
- Pick a previously published longer post you’d like to pare down. Keep it at 750 words or less, like the essays at Brevity, a site of concise creative nonfiction.
- Want to go long? Expand on an existing post. Search your drafts that are thematically similar and see if you can merge parts of each. Or, combine two or more published posts into one longform piece, made up of multiple pages or sections divided by subheads or graphic elements.
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Express Yourself.”
If I were to express myself today with limited words, I am feelin’..
In Music
Good music in different circa.
In Fashion
Simple, chic, and with my favorite hat.
In Photography
Creative and epic shots.
In Travel
Acapulco, Mexico
It all start at 50 🙂
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Loved the way you responded to this challenge
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Thank you Nadine, it took me days to construct this post..haha 😄😄😄
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Wow! Creatively done. It’s hard to write a complete thought with a few words but you did it! And the photos complement your words. Nice!
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Hi Rose, you read my mind, learning is fun so I did my best interpretation for the task, have a nice day 🙂
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Haha. I think our minds are ‘wired’ alike? 🙂
Thank you for sharing!
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My pleasure Rose 🙂
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:-*
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Beautiful photos!
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Thank you Ellen, see you around 🙂
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This was fun, I like how you used the media to enhance your post!
I did a 100 words fictional story, here is my take: https://mindandlifematters.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/singing-in-the-rain/
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Hi Rashmi, thank you, it took me days to come up with this word count story…your 100 word count story is a natural and fantastic. You did well as well 🙂
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Some of the Writing 101 has been tough for me too….it is pushing us out of our comfort zone!
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I couldn’t agree with you more, especially the Vignette series..hahaha, it was a new thing for me too 😀
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…about that bed in Acapulco…hmmm! Speaks a thousand words. Beautiful
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Thank you Jacque 🙂
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You are most welcome 🙂
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