Desolation
Much farther now, and with each step, his muscles work themselves back into their prior ease. The sun baking the remaining slough off of his back, something catches his eye as he takes in this delightfully desolate view. Some wavering blue object in the distance. Powering hard to reach it, he can just barely make out some form of alien encryption he does not recognize- bizarre characters unlike any glyph he has seen before- creating the shape "Welcome to Arizona".
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A short story, one paragraph at a time. The idea here being to convey as much as you can in your paragraph. Try to make the most out of the limited words.There's no limit to the length of the paragraph as long as it exceeds the minimum 140 words and is actually only one paragraph--not several with the line breaks removed. Just one single paragraph about one single subject.
I understand dialogue might get tricky with this approach. So to simplify things and keep with the theme of the exercise: if we have a need for dialogue, let's make either a paragraph worth of it or a smaller piece at the beginning or end of the paragraph.
I'm starting in third person present, and it'd make sense to keep it that way.
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"Let's write a story (a short story, maybe?) one paragraph at a time."
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