Over the past few weeks, Transition Year Students have been set the task of undertaking their most recent Blog Challenge. The challenges aim to encourage the students creative skills, and to showcase them on their blogs. The most recent challenge that I have received was the ‘Six Word Story’ Blog Challenge.
The Six Word Story, was first created by Ernest Hemingway, when he was challenged to write a compelling or shocking text in all but six words. He wrote many of these, but one of his most famous would have to be “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” The aim of the stories are to both shock, and make the reader think about the background of the story.
Our challenge then took this concept one step further and decided to not only allow the reader of the story to imagine its premise and background, but allowed them to visualise the story with a more tangible item. We were all asked to present our six word stories in some sort of creative way. The six word stories were one of the assessment that we have done for our Creative Writing portfolio.
My six word story is: “She’d never live beyond those bars…”, and I was really proud when I came up with it. I then was asked to present these six words in some creative way, and therefore I decided to try and draw a picture, describing a story, as I hadnt realy done much drawing so far in TY. I wanted to see how I could do aswell, and how I would be able to visualise text creatively.
My picture visualises a woman looking out from a prison cell. Her face is motionless, yet it remains cut up by the cell bars. I feel that this drawing doesn’t give much away about the background of the story, but I think that is for every reader to find out for themselves!
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