Category: How To Write 100WS

Many folk have taken to tossing notes in bottle into the sea. The message is always how do you tom write a 100 word story. Why do we write. A shot at immortality, admit, come on, come on. But we got a problem here. One is Fahrenheit 451, not the book, the burning thing. A close second is cheap paper is made with a slow releasing acid, bye bye book. Well there’s online, until a random well place solar flair. I have taken to welding. Cutting each letter out of steel. What about rust you say? Not at the pole.

Many folk have asked Kathy Lee Gifford to come out with line of clothes called how do you tom write a 100 word story. I get paid $1000 a word. Someone at the MacArthur foundation heard Laurence’s podcast and whoosh I’m getting checks that would choke a horse. I could write a novel or poetry collecting, but really folk, dollar to word ratio gets pretty meager. Keep the word count down, damn your entering Bill Gates rate. I’ve also cut back to once a month that lets the creative juices ferment. Lately I’m thinking 50 word stories, that’s the ticket.

Many folk have given up all hope of getting a straight answer and have gone off to bed, but one small child in New Jersey in crude crayon letters mistakenly sent to Santa asked how do you tom write a 100 word story.

I write my stories on the beach in Santa Cruz. Off the 41st Ave cliffs near the point where the teens surfer in black wet suits dodge the sea lions and rocks. They yell words of encouragement as I scrawl words in the sand with a stick. Only the gulls see my stories their criticism falls often.

Many folk have named their new borns how do you tom write a 100 word story

Words how passé. Movement that is the truest of representation. A hand to the forehead. a twirling of the mustache. A finger raised in dedication to saving Nell who struggles against the rough bounds that bind her to the cold steel of a most post modern deconstructionist fate. And the state of the Villain is he not more righteous vital in his expectance of his dharma, to willing be the anti-hero. Surrender your pen. Join the dance of life.

RIGHT I DON’T THINK SO.

Many folk have founded a church based on the doctrines how do you tom write a 100 word story

Count to 100. Notice your mind fill with a great emptiness. In the middle of that emptiness picture yourself writing a story, but not just any stories. This story is destiny to be the great American really short story. You are bathed in an Inner Light, so take the pray rug next to you beat out the flame, your lower intestine are on fire. Look your pages are gone with the wind. Please deposit 25 dollars for the next 10 minutes.

Many folk have carved the following into tree trunks how do you tom write a 100 word story

It was a dark and stormy night
. The night stormyed, it was dark, Eh. A Darky night storm it was. Dark was it Night was it a Storm? It was a dark stormy nighty. It was sunny and cloudless day. Dark Dark the storm it was Night Night. Was a night even so dark was a storm very so … it. Was it night or was it dark it was a storm. Night dark as stormy is was. It’s a stormdark night

Many folk have taken to cake decoration to ask how do you tom write a 100 word story.

Stories are somewhat different from newborn babies, you can’t leave them in the backyard in the rain. Babes as a rule are heavy on the begins but pretty light on middles and ends, unless . . . . Perhaps it is best not to go there. Stories need begins middles and ends. Introduction. Problem. Resolution. If possible an amusing turn of phase at the end to show how goddamn clever you are. But more importantly the use of letters in the alphabet.

Many folk have rented the Goodyear Blimp to ask how do you tom write a 100 word story.

A story isn’t a story unless it’s universal. So who is the most universal universalist in our corner to the universe. The Dolly Lama! I flew to the Himalayas, but the he was on a mountain top meditating. If the Doll won’t leave the mountain, then the mountain our leave we go. When I saw the great soul a voice filled my mind and I spoke these words “Well Hello Dolly” I must say the medical treatment in Nepal is quiet good.

Many folk use semaphore flags to ask how do you tom write a 1,000,000 word story.

In a word electroshock.

Set the voltage to 20 amps and the timer to half a second.

That puppy Will keep your hand moving.

ZAAAAAAAAP

EEEEEEEEEIIII.

Sorry let me just jot this down First.

Oh yes if you don’t keep up

that bolt of electricity

does clear the brain pan and believe me

You will stay focused.

ZAAAAAAAAP

EEEEEEEEEIIII.

Sleep you ask?

Overrated.

Eating?

That is why god gave you two good hands.

ZAAAAAAAAP

EEEEEEEEEIIII.

I’m on day 100.

16 to go

ZAAAAAAAAP

EEEEEEEEEIIII.

Honey I can’t feel my legs.

Many folk have Astralprojected into my bedroom to ask how do you tom write a 100 word story.

I have to say I’ve had quite a bit of luck using my right index finger. I don’t have that much control with my left finger. The words get pretty wobbly and hard to make out when you use the left index finger. The trick to legible fingermanship is the writing surface. Wood is too hard. I use the bottom of a dish drainer. The fingernail should not dig too deeply into the paper. A strong light behind the page aids reading.