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There's a beauty in simplicity.
See?
Short and simple doesn't mean shallow. Read Winnie-the-Pooh, for instance. There's a profound message in lines like "I used to know, but I forgot." Or Ogden Nash's famous poem "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
This Writing Exercise is the opposite of things like purple prose and the Bulwer-Lytton contest. Can we write something that's as simple as possible and still touching, funny or sexy? How far can we take something like "See Dick fuck"?
The usual rules apply: stick to about 300 words, and don't write anything that wouldn't make it through Lit's publishing process. Specifically for this exercise, "simple" can mean "infantile" but be careful about applying that to sexy bits. Don't make your characters children.
See?
Short and simple doesn't mean shallow. Read Winnie-the-Pooh, for instance. There's a profound message in lines like "I used to know, but I forgot." Or Ogden Nash's famous poem "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
This Writing Exercise is the opposite of things like purple prose and the Bulwer-Lytton contest. Can we write something that's as simple as possible and still touching, funny or sexy? How far can we take something like "See Dick fuck"?
The usual rules apply: stick to about 300 words, and don't write anything that wouldn't make it through Lit's publishing process. Specifically for this exercise, "simple" can mean "infantile" but be careful about applying that to sexy bits. Don't make your characters children.
