Shortbread Halloween Formula 500

Shortbread Halloween Formula 500

Published 7 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 Halloween just around the corner this month's Formula 500 competition has a twist. The word limit is still 500 words, however this time we challange you to master theme while sticking to the very limited word count.  Write us a spooky story that will have the Shorbread Office shrieking in fear and we will send the winning entry around our 6,000 plus Friday Story mailing list the Friday before Halloween! And as this competiton will judged by the community be sure to vote for your favourite. 

 

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