Do you remember this? I do. And it haunts me every day that I couldn't do something better. Well, this helps. Orson Scott Card, Joss Whedon, Brian Herbert, Gregory Maguire, Stan Lee, Alan Miller, Neil Gaiman . . . I didn't read one that was better than Hemingway.
And here I thought I was a failure.
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My favorites are definitely the ones by Alan Moore and Orson Scott Card. Then again, I regard Card a master storyteller. It took me a long time to realize that he writes in omniscient because he writes it well enough that you don't notice. Also, his characters. Oh my. Anyway, enough gushing.
ReplyDeleteYou're not a failure. I haven't even attempted to write a six-word story. You're courageous, and that's a good thing.
Stephen Baxter's wasn't bad, I thought.
ReplyDeleteOh, Robby.
If the story is true, how can it be better or worse than anyone else's?
Wow, so interesting! In one of Dr. Nash's classes he read us Hemingway's masterpiece and then we had to write introductions for ourselves (since it was the first day of class). It was hard. But I think our class came up with a lot of pretty good ones, especially after looking at that list. I like a lot of yours from the older post, too.
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