Growly notes changing characters6/17/2023 I believe that the primal message of art throughout the centuries has been reminding us of the need to connect with one another. With 6,000 tweets happening every second, roughly 500 million tweets every day – that’s a lot of potential icebergs floating around. The 280 character limit often forces you to distill your message to one to two notes in hope that the readers can work out the rest on their own. Writing on Twitter is a combination of being on Name That Tune and taking the Hemingway bet. The same idea applies to the contestant of Name That Tune who listens to that one note and must fill in the empty space around that note to win the prize. A young child will read the six-word story with a different set of emotional tools than a parent will. The image the sentence conjures up comes with a vacuum that your brain immediately fills in with details – the particulars involved is a combination of the little information the writer has shared and the baggage you are bringing with you. Those six words create the tip of an iceberg and it is what’s below the surface that makes the story so gut wrenching. With the Hemingway example, it’s not the six words that make it powerful, but rather all the words not being said. He supposedly walked away with ten dollars after submitting the following: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.Īs a writer I’m endlessly fascinated by how many words you can whittle a story down while still retaining its intended emotional impact. There’s a story often misattributed to Ernest Hemingway where he bet a bunch of friends that he could write a complete story in six words. Could you name a poem with one word? Could you name a painting with one color? Could you name a dish with one ingredient? I think about this when I consider other forms of artistic communication. And the other would counter, “I can name that tune in two notes.” Occasionally a contestant would be brave enough to take on the daunting challenge of naming a song with one note. ![]() “I can name that tune in three notes,” one contestant would say. ![]() In the old game show Name That Tune, contestants bid on their ability to name a song in as few notes as possible.
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