{"id":1561,"date":"2014-04-19T06:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T10:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2014-03-30T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T17:33:50","slug":"twenty-word-story-can-you-write-a-story-in-20-words-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Word Story &#8211; Can you write a story in 20 words or less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The idea for such a short short story came from an advert I heard years ago. It used a string of single, almost unconnected, words to create an image and narrative in the mind of the listener. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/twentywords.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1562 aligncenter\" alt=\"twentywords\" src=\"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/twentywords-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/twentywords-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/twentywords-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/twentywords-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/twentywords-70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/twentywords.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Subsequently I have occasionally tried my hand at doing something similar. For example:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Ten Second Horror Story:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Isolated. House. Night. Alone. Reading. Claw. Lightswitch. Powercut. Darkness. Growling. Screaming. Silence. The End.<\/span>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So what we are going to do on Wave Chronicle is take this technique and see what people can come up with using less than twenty words (excluding the title) based around the general theme of &#8220;Future&#8221; \u2013 which is a fairly wide scope. So, everything from SciFi to politics and religion to art, scitech, Transhumanism&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Just add your contribution into the comments.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea for such a short short story came from an advert I heard years ago. It used a string of single, almost unconnected, words to create an image and narrative in the mind of the listener. Subsequently I have occasionally tried my hand at doing something similar. For example: Ten Second Horror Story:\u00a0Isolated. House. Night. Alone. Reading. Claw. Lightswitch. Powercut. Darkness. Growling. Screaming. Silence. The End.\u00a0 So what we are going to do on Wave Chronicle is take this technique and see what people can come up with using less than twenty words (excluding the title) based around the general theme of &#8220;Future&#8221; \u2013 which is a fairly wide scope. So, everything from SciFi to politics and religion to art, scitech, Transhumanism&#8230; Just add your contribution into the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}