The turns in this story are fascinating! First there is the “would be” buyer of an expensive beautiful piece, but she’s a thieving and needy child, with experience and thieving thrills her, she’s starving, with a starving family (disabled? younger children?)she alone provides for, and she has a conscience and determination to overcome her first urges.
You tell this story in 100 precise words.
This morning, my thought is, these stories, individually, or as a collection, are pieces that are not only intriguing to read and inspire imagination, but are pieces that would be useful in teaching, for example, teaching inference and how to catch and hold a reader (there’s probably a term for that). The brevity of each piece is perfect for usefulness in a classroom. (Of course I think of classroom, as I’m a former teacher.)
Personally, I look forward to each new piece, and am definitely going to purchase a collection, should you decide to publish them.
Thank you so much for your kind words. Spoiler alert, I'm eventually creating a course on microfiction and how to connect it to longer pieces of fiction, but that's a bit farther down the road. Right now, I'm just building consistency!
The Writer's Notes, which will eventually be published alongside these edited stories, should shed a bit of light on the process that goes into each one, and the lessons I've learned along the way!
Further thought has several of my first impressions of the turns and reasons changed, but I see this as the value of this piece. There is so much content in those 100 words.
Another use of these stories in a classroom setting is in the area of asking a student “After reading this story, what do you want to know?” Or, “What does this make you think of?”
Outside a classroom setting… I just find entire scenarios spinning off!
The turns in this story are fascinating! First there is the “would be” buyer of an expensive beautiful piece, but she’s a thieving and needy child, with experience and thieving thrills her, she’s starving, with a starving family (disabled? younger children?)she alone provides for, and she has a conscience and determination to overcome her first urges.
You tell this story in 100 precise words.
This morning, my thought is, these stories, individually, or as a collection, are pieces that are not only intriguing to read and inspire imagination, but are pieces that would be useful in teaching, for example, teaching inference and how to catch and hold a reader (there’s probably a term for that). The brevity of each piece is perfect for usefulness in a classroom. (Of course I think of classroom, as I’m a former teacher.)
Personally, I look forward to each new piece, and am definitely going to purchase a collection, should you decide to publish them.
Thank you so much for your kind words. Spoiler alert, I'm eventually creating a course on microfiction and how to connect it to longer pieces of fiction, but that's a bit farther down the road. Right now, I'm just building consistency!
The Writer's Notes, which will eventually be published alongside these edited stories, should shed a bit of light on the process that goes into each one, and the lessons I've learned along the way!
That’s great! Thanks for sharing them this way also.
Further thought has several of my first impressions of the turns and reasons changed, but I see this as the value of this piece. There is so much content in those 100 words.
Another use of these stories in a classroom setting is in the area of asking a student “After reading this story, what do you want to know?” Or, “What does this make you think of?”
Outside a classroom setting… I just find entire scenarios spinning off!