num_pages: 256
description: Collection of several hundred short fiction stories each exactly 50 words long among the thousands submitted to the Telegraph Sunday Magazine competition. The mini-saga 50-word story idea was originally invented by writer Brian Aldiss and the newspaper The Daily Telegraph.  Mini-sagas are used in business as an educational tool a creative outlet and a source of entertainment. They are not poems but rather bite-sized lessons for life and business. They are often used to stimulate creativity stretch your thinking determine the essential elements of a story or enhance discipline in writing. They are often funny or surprising. As with any other form of fiction a 50-word story should have a beginning and an end a plot and character development (even if they are only implied) and a theme meaning or purpose of some sort. Many 50-word stories are built around twists or climactic moments.
language: English
title: The Book of Mini-Sagas
publisher: Alan Sutton