Write on Wednesday - Great One Liners

I am typically a rather verbose writer. I like words and use a lot of them. I think it is better to have too many than not enough. In law school one of the assignments called for us to write a memo with a page limit maximum of 10 pages. When I completed my first draft, my memo was more than 20 pages long. Needless to say I had to pare it down quite a bit.

This week’s Write on Wednesday challenges us to use words wisely and frugally.

Write On Wednesdays Exercise 13 - A Great One Liner...This week you need to come up with one good line to describe a part of your day. It can be 'real life' or fiction. But it must tell us 'who did what'. It has to be an amazing line, like a tiny little paper plane that must travel a big distance (figuratively speaking) with only a few folds ... Every word in that line must earn its place, or be cut as excess baggage. Let's get thinking about each sentence as though every word counts, like working one group of muscles to show how much weight they can carry.

I tried a couple of times, and came up with 3 one liners to share:

As she pulled the seatbelt low and tight across her hips, she stared out the tiny window and wondered why it never got easier to say goodbye, no matter how many times she did it.

Leaving one home for the other is the burden of living two lives, I realized as I bid farewell to my friends to return to my family.

Thoughts of him remained dormant in her mind, strategically buried so they would not surface at inopportune times, but as she inhaled the familiar scent of his cologne she could not help but take a solitary walk down memory lane.




Using less words but making every word count takes gumption!