RESULTS: Let's Write Classifieds- Week 1
Well, we're closing out week 1 of this experiment to address MINIFICTION as a literary genre.
We could say (exaggerating) that the motto of minifiction is: "Turn any text into literature." That is, a literary experience where it is the reader who ultimately shapes, completes, finds meaning, and enjoys what they read; beyond the obvious format, borrowed from elsewhere, in which we present it.
In the coming weeks, we will delve deeper into the theoretical elements. In week one, my goal was to invite you to overcome the fear of not knowing how to do it. The results exceeded my expectations in terms of quality, level of experimentation, and creative depth.
Results
My impressions and highlights for each author: |
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| 📝 enrisanti: The contest has opened. He uses his sharp sense of humor to present relationships that seek a change of pace, a way to stop doing the same thing, or eliminate third parties. Third parties as large and intrusive as an elephant. I was pleasantly surprised by her level of conciseness. --- |
| 📝 soulfuldreamer: Three perspectives on the consequences of the lack of peace, a war of voices seeking to impose themselves on others, children whose childhood and most basic rights are being taken away from them. A peace that seems impossible to achieve due to a lack of sanity, of common sense. A beautiful way to express her positions. --- |
| 📝 bessedlife: I appreciate your attempt to use as few words as possible, but it's not about writing too few; it's about finding the necessary amount, because otherwise, you can create confusion or the feeling that something is still missing from the story. I recommend sending your second announcement to as many Venezuelans as possible (in "status" format on your social media); the story is a demonstration of resilience. You were the participant with the most comments and responses, she offered to her fellow challengers. My respects --- |
| 📝 weisser-Rabe: In the conciseness achieved, there's still a sense of disorder. Like a good writer, she used a narrator who seeks the center, who seeks silence, to unlock what's blocked and flow. A return to simplicity. The text about the search for the center was my favorite. It begins with the voice of the Fakir, but the author (not the narrator) intervenes to set conditions. Fantastic, letting go and not letting go, you portray us in our humanity. The use of binary code to sign the post turns the post into a microfiction—congratulations. You captured the idea of microfiction. --- |
| 📝 mehwish-almas: She uses similes to such an extreme that it's impossible not to identify with the caged bird that doesn't want to be free. I made the second one my own; in it, you manage to connect with the soul. Your endings remind me of my style, somewhat rough, perhaps too direct, and which seems to contradict the beautiful language bordering on poetry at the beginning. She quotes: Nahj al-Balagha (Arabic version): "He who is stopped by what he has done, no brilliant lineage can make him flee.🙏 --- |
📝 solperez: if I were looking for an example of a micro-story, this would be perfect. Direct, concise, with multiple readings, it leaves you thinking for a while, perfect friend. When reading Venezuelans, and this includes me, it seems we have the economy and the color green as the background theme... What's happening in Venezuela? I think that lender is very naive if he thinks anyone will accept his offer. Thank you for participating in this contest. 🙏🙏🙏 She says: Classified ads that... sought to streamline and facilitate transactions. --- |
| 📝 peachyladiva: I wish I had your ability to weave such beautiful and poetic phrases, as someone said in the comments. Reading you was a healing balm. You manage to turn the everyday into literary art, and that's what microfiction is. She says: It's funny how even the smallest spaces can hold entire stories, isn't it? --- |
| Very close to midnight, I was closing the week 1 edition (even though I knew there were still hours left), and there was a knock at my door. A writer arrived with his manuscript. "I want you to read it," he asked. With very tired eyes, I stopped the machines and accepted the manuscript. How could I refuse to publish art? --- |
| 📝 crucemilcar63: From the start, he places an image that, for those of us who are gray-haired, brings back the memories and sensations of unfolding the newspaper with both hands, beginning to search by category, in small type, or in "featured" for what interested us. 🙏 He offers us, with three brilliant examples of "micro-stories." He uses an economy of words, concise, precise language, even if it sounds like a synonym; he knows where to place each word. Even if they're not outlined, we capture the character behind the signature. Unexpected twists that transgress the status quo of three sacred cows of our time: politics, religion, and endless scrolling. This last one takes me back to "Fahrenheit 451," but in a version without fire, without fuss, where we comfortably let time and other elements consume the books and what they represent for humanity. |
BUT
Friend, in this series of challenges, I invite you to explore "microfiction," which certainly recognizes the micro-stories as one of its possibilities. In that order, and perhaps without consciously knowing it, other authors have moved closer to microfiction. But I publicly ask you to continue delighting us with your creations in the coming weeks.
WINNERS
It was extremely difficult to select them; I wouldn't want to establish a hierarchy and say that one is better than those below it. Honestly, I turned to my intuition and the purpose I seek with these challenges: to the set of three stories. Which of these stayed in my mind the longest. Then, I had to check if they had followed all the rules, and, surprise, I found some that didn't... Here's a first photograph of the results.
💥 🏆💱 Revealing the winner 💥 🏆💱 |
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🥇 FIRST PLACE: @peachyladiva -- 5 SBI points |
🥈 SECOND PLACE: @soulfuldreamer (*) --- 5 SBI points |
🥉THIRD PLACE: @mehwish-almas (*) --- 2 SBI points |
🏅 Best Commentator @blessedlife --- 2 SBI points |
| Note: Remember to comment on other participants, this will be taken into account for the future. --- |
| AND 2 SBI points to rest of participant. Thanks for everything |
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Some statistics |
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| 👤 Author | 📝 | 💬 Comments |
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| enrisanti | Link | 6 |
| soulfuldreamer | Link | 2 |
| blessedlife | Link | 11 |
| weisser-rabe | Link | 3 |
| solprerez | Link | 4 |
| mehwish-almas | Link | 1 |
| peachyladiva | Link | 10 |
| Evidence of payment in SBI. |
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Fuentes
- Imágenes
- [1] Backgrouhd
Las imágenes y gif son de mi creación a partir de Promts editados en Ideogram.ai. Dicha aplicación emplea la Inteligencia Artificial, para generar imágenes, a partir de frases y oraciones escritas. Estas son libres de derechos. [1] Ver mi galería en Ideogram.ai: joslud
- [1] Backgrouhd
- Translated with Google Traslate
Original production by @joslud |
Josè, you are a wonderful host: your contest is interesting and educational at the same time. I love it! Thanks for the enrichment of our Community.
Congratulations to all winners! You all are great authors.
Muchas gracias por las observaciones, demasiado conciso tampoco es lo ideal.
Es un gusto leer producciones creativas, recibir un incentivo por ello es un gusto adicional.
Felicidades a las ganadoras.
Oh wow… I don’t even know how to put this into words without tearing up a little.
Thank you so much.
Winning this contest means more to me than you can imagine.
To be honest, when I submitted my entry, I wasn’t even sure it made sense. I just wrote from a place deep within, raw, honest, a little scared, and to see those words described as “a healing balm” and “literary art”… it truly touched me. It’s like you reached into my heart and reminded me of why I write in the first place.
Lately, I’ve been battling self-doubt, wondering if my voice still mattered in the noise of it all. But this win, this beautiful recognition, has breathed new life into my belief in my gift. It reminded me that storytelling still matters. That my storytelling still matters.
And that imagery of me arriving with a manuscript at midnight, I will hold that in my heart forever. Thank you for seeing me, for seeing the art in my words, for opening the door.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you. 💛
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