Scattered let it be

Posted on by Reena Saxena

Can I write a story in one sentence?

When I raise a doubt, it writes one story; when I start writing, it becomes another.

The need here is to disentangle entwined stories to make sense of them and condense the wisdom into a single sentence.

However, life and writing prompts demand more, so I invent characters that either echo or contradict my story, and they become springboards for new stories.

I’m sure the reader’s mind is as entangled as mine, and their interpretation is vastly different from the intent I started with.

Writers never die of boredom, and condensed wisdom is a megalomaniac statement – whatever is scattered across the universe, ungathered let it be.

Six Sentence Stories

23 thoughts on “Scattered let it be”

    1. At times, the reader’s interpretation is different from my intent. But I just let it be. The impact will be different as our internal processors are different.

      Thanks for the engagement, Mimi!

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  4. we have consensus on ‘ungathered let it be’ the Six Phrase of the Week

    kinda antithetical to what, imo, is the intent of the phrase?

    still, quite thought provoking

    of (inventing) characters and the spring boarding of new stories… one might view (in the abstract, of course*’) that they, ‘the characters’ are as real as ‘Readers’… entities we accept, hell, we invite into the personal reality we inhabit… so, who is the ‘real’ person

    (on a personal note, we have an alcove reserved for you at the Six Sentence Café & Bistro the next time the spirit moves you… no need to call ahead, unless your plans call for table service… a quiet place to bring a friend (fictional or imaginary**) and spend some time

    *lol

    ** ‘or‘ ?$&( what the heck is that qualifier for…;p

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