It’s a kind of literary game.
\nSentences must have exactly six words.
\nApparently someone wrote a whole book!
\nThe New Yorker<\/i> reviewed it recently.
\nThe reviewer played the same game.
\nAll his sentences had six words.<\/p>\n
What about five word sentences?
\nCould that also be expressive?
\nOr would it become restrictive?
\nGuess you’d have to try.
\nIt never hurts to experiment.<\/p>\n
Four might be hard.
\nThere aren’t enough words.
\nGets way too terse.
\nSounds like bad Hemingway.<\/p>\n
Three is ridiculous.
\nIt becomes constricting.
\nWords fail me.<\/p>\n
Feeling uncomfortable.
\nGetting nervous.<\/p>\n
Quitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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