I was looking through my post about writing prompts to unleash creativity. Sometimes, when my creative voice is rather quiet, I will look at this post. Many times, just the act of writing will wake up my creative voice and the prompts help me with this exercise. As I started looking through the prompts, I found a rather interesting blog. The blog is just titled Six Sentences and each post is only six sentences long.
My first thought was that this is a rather confining way to write. But, then my creative voice stepped in and yelled, no, this is a creative way to write. It forces you to come up with ideas and refine them into six sentences. This is one way to exercise your creative self. In the same way Twitter restrains you with 140 characters, this forces you rethink about what you want to say.
The six sentences themselves do not have rules which still allows the writer to fully express the words without boundaries. In the same way One Word gives you just one word to stimulate a 60 second writing exercise, Six Sentences is another great writing prompt. Sometimes, having pre-defined rules can trigger the most creative prose. So I thought I would try it here.
I thought about our last day at the beach together as I stared at the towel hanging loosely in the guest bathroom. After a hot day in the sun and an evening on the pier, the very next morning, he left. His words that translated into goodbye still linger in my mind months later. How could he just leave like that? I was fixated on the patterns sewn into the towel like the answers were found there somehow. Funny, how a towel can bring back so many rushing and haunting memories.
Try this as another writing exercise! Let me know what you come up with!!
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