Shortbread Formula 500: Travel

Shortbread Formula 500: Travel

Published 4 months ago

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We started with the short story, and now we’re moving onto the micro-story. The Shortbread Formula 500 is a competition where anything up to 500 words is your limit, so you have to ‘make every frame a Rembrandt’, as was the saying of film cameramen of old when describing the shooting of television adverts. This is a style of writing you can do anywhere, anytime – during your lunch break, in a bus or a train, or even stuck in one of those endless traffic jams. Choose your subject, choose your title, choose your plot – a beginning, middle, and end.

Shortbread wants to encourage everyone to have a go – writers and readers of all ages  - so now is the time to tune up your creative engine, psyche yourself up and hit that blank page at speed…

With the cold weather refusing to leave and travel agents tempting us with exotic locations, this Formula 500 competition would like to encourage our Shortbreaders to let their imaginations wander to faraway destinations. The word limit is still 500 words, however this time, we'd like stories about traveling whilst sticking to the very limited word count. The sky really is the limit with this one, so leave the cold weather behind and take your reader on a journey they'll never forget! The best story will be sent around our 6,000 plus Friday Story mailing list!

And as this competiton will judged by the community be sure to vote for your favourite before the 6th of February. Also thanks to Meg Malpass for suggesting this theme! If you would like to suggest a theme for an upcoming Formula 500 competition please send your ideas to fiona@shortbreadstories.com 

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