True Stories Told in one Sentence
This week is a little different, rather than talking about an article I decided to talk about an entire website. This website is a collection of hundrends of true stories told in a single sentence. The experience of going through these stories is challenging to convey; it is like going for a walk, and every step contains the depth, the worries, the humor, or the sorrows of someone elses life. I don't know about the credibility of every story, some of them may be made up, for anyone can post their one sentence stories, but even those that are made up give you insight into the personality and the life of a stranger. It is interesting to me how for some the sentence they might choose to right might be the most signifigant point in their life, whereas others will have a sentence describing a highly insignifigant routine or day to day activity. The possibilities for what people might right are endless. I just clicked on a random category, in this case the topic was childhood, and the sentence that stood out to me was "While the other kids made a snowman and the adults conversed indoors, I slipped off the dock into the snowy lake and had to be my own hero at age 7." So much can be inferred and the emotion that can be conveyed is surprising. Its hard to comprehend how in so few words you can say so much. It is something that I need to learn to use in my own writing; stop with the rambling and say what really matters. The impact they can have don't only have to be sad or concerned, another under the same category was "I was excited to climb out and meet her, but the window glass wasn't." What I enjoyed about this sentence was that the writer didnt have to say straight up that they crashed into their window glass, it was something that you could infer. It further goes to emphasize how you can say alot with very little.
