55 FICTION

There are over

950,000 words

in the English language

All you have to do is use just 55 of them to write your own story.

• A story is a story only if it contains the following four elements: 1) a setting; 2) a character or characters; 3) conflict; and 4) resolution.

• All stories have to be happening someplace, which means they have to have a setting of some kind, even if it’s the other side of the universe, the inner reaches of someone’s mind, or just the house next-door.

• Characters can have infinite variations. People, animals, clouds, microbes. Anything.

• In the course of the story, something has to happen.
  

• Story’s title isn’t included in the word count. But remember that it can’t be more than seven words long.

• Any punctuation is allowed, and no punctuation marks count as words.