Encore 100 Word Story Meme
Nov. 12th, 2008 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
profundisI know its NaNoWriMo month and the Writer's Block meme is going around, but I thought this might be fun for creative writing fans too. It seems like it went around a few years ago.
Write a story or a snippet of one using no more than 100 words.
Post the story and this meme on your journal.
My twist: If anyone says "encore" in your comments you have to write another 100 words of the same story, and repost. Rinse, repeat.
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Algernon had always hated his name ever since he was a grade-school child in Mrs. Cooper's class. Kids could be cruel and he knew this from personal experience, though he'd taught his fair share of hard lessons in his day - many to the very children that had teased him. He thought of himself as well-adjusted now but he knew that was vanity - it was easy to look back and smile once you had your vengeance and no one else would dare contradict you. Not that being a witch was easy, mind you, but it did have its perks.
Now that he was no more than one stroke away from the most powerful office in the world, he was insulated from the more mundane tribulations of life in the Dominion of America, but the stakes were higher than ever considering the scrutiny he now lived under, not to mention what lurked in the shadows of the capital and in the lights of its tabernacles. His gift for bargaining with Synchronicity served him well in such conditions, but he knew that every bargain struck had its price as well as its promise. Caveat Emptor, went the old proverb. Buyer beware.
Write a story or a snippet of one using no more than 100 words.
- It can be based on anything - a recollection, pure fiction, some dialogue, a dream, whatever, as long as it is no more than 100 words.
- Try to make it as off-the-cuff as you can, just run with the first thing that comes to mind.
- It must have complete sentences and clauses. No running out of words in mid-sentence or not finishing a thought within the 100 word limit.
- Hyphenated words (side-mounted, yellow-green) count as one, but not hyphenated phrases (late-to-the-party, too-good-to-be-forgotten, etc.)
Post the story and this meme on your journal.
My twist: If anyone says "encore" in your comments you have to write another 100 words of the same story, and repost. Rinse, repeat.
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Algernon had always hated his name ever since he was a grade-school child in Mrs. Cooper's class. Kids could be cruel and he knew this from personal experience, though he'd taught his fair share of hard lessons in his day - many to the very children that had teased him. He thought of himself as well-adjusted now but he knew that was vanity - it was easy to look back and smile once you had your vengeance and no one else would dare contradict you. Not that being a witch was easy, mind you, but it did have its perks.
Now that he was no more than one stroke away from the most powerful office in the world, he was insulated from the more mundane tribulations of life in the Dominion of America, but the stakes were higher than ever considering the scrutiny he now lived under, not to mention what lurked in the shadows of the capital and in the lights of its tabernacles. His gift for bargaining with Synchronicity served him well in such conditions, but he knew that every bargain struck had its price as well as its promise. Caveat Emptor, went the old proverb. Buyer beware.
