Six Word Story Takes the Cake

As the first quarter progressed on, the blog topics open for students to choose for became increasingly more interesting and intriguing. It only makes sense, the years prompts started off as relatively basic, but once a few weeks passed I found myself genuinely being curious about the topics, and even excited to look into them. In particular, Week 6, in which we discussed American's struggle to move west, contained by far the most entertaining topics to choose from. However, one of those four caught my eye the most: the six word story. Now of course, they typical "high school reason" for favoring this prompt would be the fact that it only required six words, as opposed to a normal paragraph or even more. I'd be lying if I said that wasn't at least part of the reason. However, the magnitude, or lack there of, of this prompt is not what won me over. Ever since hearing the example in class of "For Sale: Baby shoes, never used," it really struck me how easily so few words can bear an immense impact. Although the maximum wasn't hard to reach, in reality, I ended up spending even more time on that prompt than I do on some others- simply because I was trying to make that impression. I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge.