short story

 

For sale: baby shoes, never used.

- Ernest Hemingway

I haven’t read any Hemingway yet (I’m still working my way through Cervantes), but I came across this article on Ernest Hemingway Top Five Tips for Writing Well.

And I read that “his finest demonstration of short sentence prowess was when he was challenged to tell an entire story in only 6 words”. The first line in this post is just that, and it is genius.

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