It has been ages since I've written anything remotely creative - once the quarter started, I had absolutely no time to write! So I figured now that finals are over, I should try my hand at a writing exercise or two.
I found an interesting prompt, which was to write a story using only one-syllable words. This was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be, and eventually it got to the point where I could not take my story where it needed to go without breaking the rule. So I did.
I figured an exercise is just a way to get your creative juices flowing anyway, so once you have an idea, why not just run with it?
Due to the limitations of the prompt, this is more of a sketch than a story, but here it is. I have discovered that I often have a single moment in time but keep shifting the context to it as I write the story. This one started out as fantasy, actually, with a prophetic gift and life depending on the continuous playing of music on some unknown magical planet. And well, look at how it ended up.
Infinity
The last of
the notes swelled and waned, and the room was still once more. The girl's hands
shook. She brushed a tear from her face and bit back a scream as the salt from
her tears sent a blade of pain through the cuts on her hands. The strings of
the harp had not been kind to her.
"Please,"
she croaked.
"Once
more," the man said, voice firm.
"I can't.
My hands..." She held them up for him to see the drops of blood.
"You
must! There is more at stake here than your hands!"
