Day 7 | Expansion & Contraction by Peyton Ellas
Write a 50 word story. Expand it to a 500 word story. Now revise that story to a 50 word story and make it as different from the first 50 word story as you can.
Peyton EllasPeyton Ellas lives in rural California. When not writing, they are farming, running a micro farm animal sanctuary and creating native plant gardens as a landscape contractor. They are the author of Gardening with California Native Plants: Inland, Foothill and Central Valley Gardens. Their work has appeared or will appear in Milk House, Pilgrimage Press, streetcake magazine, Copperfield Review Quarterly and elsewhere. They write the (not) obsolete newsletter on substack and can be reached at peytonellas.com.
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Remember: I don’t recommend posting your story in the comments here (and I talk more about why not, here). Best practice: Leave us a comment about how it went, or share your favorite line from your story.
Here’s your next Game Piece. save the image and share on social media with #storyaday
Prefer paper crafts? Here’s the cut & paste version
