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Quote by fuzzy1954
leftie till school. now I'm rightie


I am the same. My mother was surprised when I came home from school and demonstrated my new writing ability using my right hand, since I had always used my left hand to color and scribble.

A left-handed friend of mine says I think like a left-handed person. Although I'm not entirely sure what that means, I'll take it as a compliment since most of the left-handed people I know think pretty well.

I'm partial to the semicolon; what other punctuation mark can connect two independent clauses?

Where are you, right this very moment?
I write with my right hand but have a fair amount of dexterity in my left. If my right hand is out of commission, as it once was for a few days following surgery, I can write legibly with my left hand, but it's slow going.
Actually, in retreading Gypsy's original post, I'm sure you're right. I was thinking of something different, but they are both problematic on mobile devices.
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Because the original title of this thread says "Report Abuse"...I was looking at the "Report Offensive Post" link at the bottom above the comments...


Hmmm, you may be right. That's not the one I've had trouble with, however.
It says "Flag inappropriate" right under the pulldown menu to leave a score on a story. It can be difficult to press the right option on an iPad or other mobile device.

I could report a few of yours for the sake of research, Alan.
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Or maybe this isn't something that happens often except to me?



It has happened to me a few times too, but I was lucky enough not to be logged in at the time. Instead of filing a report, I was redirected to the page telling me I had to be logged in to take that action.
"Peppier" is a funny-looking word. In my opinion, rather than "with more pep," "peppier" should be used to describe the waiter who comes around wielding a gargantuan pepper mill and offering "fresh ground pepper" as if it were magic pixie dust.

Pepé, the pretentious, portly peppier with a prominent proboscis, was particularly parsimonious in peppering, his pharaonic phallus producing a paltry portion of the precious provision over my pappardelle pasta.


Thanks to Gypsy and Louise for their contributions to this bit of frivolity.
I had to look that one up.

It means preface or prologue. Proem isn't used much anymore, at least in my circles, so it seems an odd choice for inclusion in the word cloud.
A good general rule to follow is to capitalize all nouns, pronouns and verbs, and all other words of four or more letters. The first and last word in the title should be capitalized regardless of length. The title of this thread should be as follows:

Help Required: How to Capitalise Titles
This is a friendly reminder to all the writers who post work here to think carefully about the proper category and rating for your piece — and even whether it belongs on this site at all — before submitting it.

• If a story or poem is primarily about sex or includes detailed descriptions of sex, it would be considered erotica, which is outside the purview of StoriesSpace, and will not be published here.

• Pieces about child abuse, even if the terms are couched, need at least a 13+ rating. Please remember that G means both language and content are appropriate for children.

Thank you!
Thanks for posting this Alan, but wouldn't you know it...the poems must have been written this year — which is when I started writing more free verse and less metered/rhyming poetry.

Douglas, thank you for giving credit to your friend for her idea! I'm sure she will appreciate the gesture.

Rather than doing it as a prologue, however, I would suggest a short author's note at the end of the story. If she is a member here, you could also post your thanks on her profile page.
In the many writing contests in which I have been a judge over the years, one of the most important criteria has been how well a story incorporates the theme of the competition. In this case the only "theme" was that the submissions had to tell a story in just six words.

Hemingway's original, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," does that splendidly. It gives us a solid basis to fill in the rest of the details for ourselves. So do some of the other finalists, as well as several lines posted in this thread. For example, I think most anyone knows what's going on in, "Relief came, then tears: 'It's benign'", "She beamed. Two blue lines — finally!" or "Boy meets girl’s boyfriend, prefers him."

If anyone can tell me what's happening based only on, "No taxidermist loved his daughter more," I'd love to hear it.

But yes, selecting a winner from among 5,000 entries must have been difficult.
The winner has been announced. It is, "No taxidermist loved his daughter more."

My honest reaction, in six words: Bullshit! Hemingway's friends wouldn't have paid. Seriously, I just don't get it.

Yippee!


Thanks, Noraj, for letting me know!
And Mr. Martini, you know as well as anyone the value of a bit of shameless self-promotion. Just sayin'...
It's down to three more views needed to hit 1,000!

(I do wonder, though, how many views can be attributed to me checking how many views it has gotten... )
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My entries didn't make the shortlist, found here, but it was a good challenge to undertake nonetheless. I'm glad to have done it.

(And I still think some of mine are better than the finalists.)


Your post here just gave me the inspiration for my own six word story...

"I entered five, but none won."




And that would probably be the winner!

My favorite among the finalists is this one: "Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day."
Since only five entries per person were accepted, one of my personal favorites fell by the wayside:

"It's over..."
"Oh? So are we."

(Clearly, the end of a relationship was a major theme in my efforts. Don't worry, they are purely fictional.)
The first piece I ever posted here, a whimsical yet true account of what I discovered upon returning home from visiting my mother overnight, is less than a hundred views from having 1,000. It would be awesome if [url=http://www.storiesspace.com/stories/poetry/the-pants-on-the-floor.aspx][b]The Pants on the Floor[/url] could reach that milestone in time for its second anniversary on StoriesSpace, which will be in just a few days.

http://www.storiesspace.com/stories/poetry/the-pants-on-the-floor.aspx

Thanks so much!
My entries didn't make the shortlist, found here, but it was a good challenge to undertake nonetheless. I'm glad to have done it.

(And I still think some of mine are better than the finalists.)