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“What is all this stuff?” George leaned into the workroom, one hand on the door frame, afraid to step beyond the door sill and into what looked to him like an explosion in a junk yard.
“It’s the middle stage of my novel,” answered Donald, who didn’t bother to turn around, and instead focused on the crowded 5×7 foot whiteboard adorned with unreadable scrawl and sticky notes flapping in the spring breeze from the open windows, the papier-mâché model of an elvish mountain that swung open on fast and silent hinges to reveal dozens of inner chambers, a flying machine built out of popsicle sticks and multiple colors of tissue paper, and tiny Lego-built action figures scattered on the floor among piles of other Lego blocks.
“But you said were doing an historical speculative fiction on jewel thieves, with a Steampunk edge, and you promised it would be submitted to me – your editor – by the end of the month!”
“Things got complicated,” Donald sighed, shrugging. “Just be patient and it’ll all come together, if we just remember that one man’s trash is another man’s best-selling novel.”
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2021)
The challenge? Write a story in 6 sentences, no more & no less, and if you’d like, share your creation or just visit and comment on others’ ideas, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Denise. The prompt is “JUNK”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
Valley of the Trolls 
Now that’s what you call immersing yourself into the creative writing experience! 😀👍😎
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Multiple modalities all the way!!
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(Don’t tell anyone, but I’m a totally sucker for anything Steampunk. But then, in my defense, I read a lot of Michael Moorcock back before I became youth-challenged).
Fun Six! Betcha most Sixarians will instantly identify with the notion that writing is 2/3s inspiration and 1/2 anarchy
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I like your new math!
Thanks, Clark!
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Great idea but I fear I’d get lost in my own white board, workroom, lol
Novel use of the prompt word, Liz 😆
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“Novel” I see what ya did there! 😆😆
Thanks, Denise!
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Some people get their inspiration in the oddest ways, more power to them.
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‘ZACKLY! Physical play can be the key, sometimes.
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Brilliant, Liz. However I’m beginning to think this may be a description of your mind at work so if you don’t mind, I’ll just stand over here. Hey, is that steam coming out of your ears, punk. 🙂
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It may be that…I could use a good mental flossing, yah?
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Sounds terribly painful. 😉
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Even junk can have a purpose! Nice one Liz.
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Easier to trim something that’s too long, than something too, too short!
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Brilliant, Liz, that workshop sounds like the inside of my head!! I’m reading my first Steampunk novel just now: great fun 🙂
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One man’s trash is another man’s best-selling novel – truer words never spoken. Nice work.
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Thank you kindly!
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Writing sounds too messy. I think that room needs editing and revising.
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Big, deep breath…and GO! 😂
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Great word picture. Exploding junk yard indeed must have seen my sons room
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I hear that! 😂😂😂
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Good point at the end: ” one man’s trash is another man’s best-selling novel.” I also like the phrase: “like an explosion in a junk yard”.
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Thanks, Frank.
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