Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Stringing words together is hard

For those who think that anyone can write a short story, let me point you to the entries in Miss Snark's writing contest. The rules (see her April 2 post) were simple: 500 words max; extra points for using a list of 6 words & 5 phrases. Miss Snark apparently was overcome by the number of responses: 100+ in less than 24 hours. Though I think if she'd kept her head out of the gin pail, she'd have seen that her legions of adoring fans (her blog has had more than a half-million visitors since last July) would leap to the challenge. And quite a challenge it is, as you can see from the varying quality of the entries, which Miss Snark posted unedited. (Reminder: Spell check doesn't catch homonyms.) Fortunately, there are few clinkers. Some of the stories are stunningly imaginative and several are laugh-out-loud funny. Darling Husband and I shared a half-hour of domestic bliss yesterday evening, during which he prepared his famous Tofu Surprise while I read him some of my favorites.

4 comments:

Susan said...

Mine was #65. I thought it was really fun. Until Miss S called me Nitwit of the Day.

Bella Stander said...

I loved #65! Time to tune up your anti-spam program, though. Or start using a webmail account, as Miss S has repeatedly advised.

Dr. H said...

Anything with Tofu is always a BIG surprise!

Anonymous said...

I can assure you the only surprises are 1/which vegetables I'm using this time and 2/that it's always so delicious!
- D.H.