Captions. Twitter. Brevity.

The Life Literary’s mission, my mission, is to give people ideas for how to add words to life.  Here’s one: Write snippets.  Don’t aim for a book.  Don’t shoot for an essay.  Forget paragraphs.  Avoid even simple sentences if that is more than you want to tackle at the moment.  Write captions.  Tweet.  Be brief.

Captions

Draft descriptions of pictures.  What’s needed?  A few words only.  I post pictures (pretty, yes) but only to serve words, my main squeeze.  What’s needed for a caption?  A few words only.  I aim for pithy, punchy, profound.  Often funny.  I post two captions per picture (you, too, could write two or even three or four, but that defeats the purpose of only writing a spoonful at a time).  One is visible directly beneath and the other hidden, visible only if you hover the cursor over the picture.  For example:

Virgin Peony

The point: go find some photos, prints or cyber, and write a caption for each.  Or take a walk and look for a scene you’d like to add words to, then snap it and caption away!

Twitter

I tweet almost daily.  At times, twice a day.  Good adverts for The Life Literary?  Maybe more than that, good practice writing well, being concise.  Tweeters scribe 140 characters lickety split.  Just getting warmed up and poof, gone, no more room.  Ooops.  Time to trim.  I’m always amazed I can still shorten a sentence and usually, improve it.

(Sentence fragments?  Don’t pester me.  I’d rather we, you and me, write sweet, dainty tid-bits, verbal bon-bons, literary candy, than to never set pen to paper.  Today: not writing.  Tomorrow:  Fragmenting to town!  Bravo!)

Brevity

The world wallows in words.  How many are worth reading?  I try to make each one count.  You can too.

What could be easier?  Start today!

About literarylee

I sling words for a living. Always have, always will. Some have been interesting and fun; most not. These days, I write the fun words early in the morning before the adults are up and make me eat my Cream of Wheat.
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