Today is Monday, 5 PM. “Okay, I will try to join this Short Story competition!” said Sari. “I will send you information about that competition and its rules later” said her senior. Sari thinks it is okay for her to join this competition because she is having holiday this week. Sari is interested with that competition. She has never joined any writing competition before. She is interested with making short story lately. Now she wants to challenge herself with joining a short story competition.
It is 9 PM now. Sari checks her email and she received an email from her senior. She sees the information about the competition and its rules. “The length is 1500 until 2500 words? The deadline is next week?” said Sari in her mind. She likes to makes stories and put them into her blog. However, she had never make a story until 1500 words before. She is not sure if she can make a story that in a week. Therefore, Sari doubt if she is able to do it. It made her reluctant to join this competition. It is too hard for her to make 1500-words short story. On the other hand, she thought that if she doesn’t join into that competition, maybe she won’t ever have an experience in writing competition. Finally, she tries to make a short story.
It is 10 PM now. Sari is still thinking about what story she should make. She thinks, thinks, and thinks for several minutes. But she doesn’t find an idea for her short story. She gives up and goes to sleep. She hopes tomorrow she can find any idea to make a short story.
Today is Tuesday. Sari wants to start typing. She turns on her laptop and then she opens Microsoft Word. She looks at monitor for several minutes. Although the software had been running for several minutes, there had been no letter typed because Sari had yet to find any idea. In the end, Sari felt tired of thinking. She decides to do something than thinking about idea that will not come. She turns off her laptop and goes outside for some inspiration. She hopes she can find any idea to make a short story. When she walks she meets her friend. They go to a cafeteria and they talk each other. They have fun after talking each other. After that, Sari goes back to her room in a board.
It is 4 PM now. Sari turns on her laptop again. Now she has an idea to makes a short story. “Hmmm… Maybe I makes story about fairy’s adventure. It can be interesting too.” think her in her mind. She opens Microsoft Office and starts typing. Sari types 8 words. After that, she stops, unable to put another word. After thinking, Sari types the next words. Now two lines have appeared on the monitor. Next, Sari stops for awhile and types some words again. It happens for several times.
It is 8 PM now. Now there are 6 lines on the laptop’s monitor. Sari doesn’t know what she should type to continue her short story. She tried to play games to relax her brain. After playing game, she tries to find an idea to continue her short story. When she sees words that she has typed, she went to erase some of those and write it with something new. She finds some ideas to continue her short story and she types some words.
It is 10 PM now. Sari has typed 12 lines of words. She can’t type anymore because she feels sleepy. It’s better to stop typing for today. She turns off her laptop and goes to sleep.
Today is Wednesday. After having bread for her breakfast, she turns on her laptop and starts to type again. She opens the document that she typed yesterday and then she types. Now she plays some music in her laptop so she can make short story with hearing music. When she types with full of concentration, her cell phone is ringing. She takes her mobile and then the short conversation begins. “Sari, are you free today? Let’s go to mall!” said her friend. “Uh… Yes. When we go there?” replied Sari. “Um… at 1 PM, I guess.” said her friend. “Oh. Okay. Bye!” said Sari. Sari ends the call and types some words again.
It is 1 PM now. Now there are 300 words on the monitor. Sari stops typing and thinks for the best next words. After that, Sari takes her small bag and goes out with her friend. They go to see things, watch movie, eat good food and visit the book store at a mall. She goes back to her room at 7 PM. After coming back to her room, Sari resumes to make short story again. Sari types words that she has been thought when she went out this day. Now Sari has successfully types 400 words at 9 PM.
It is 10 PM now. There are still 400 words on the monitor. Sari confused to continue her short story. Sari feels lazy to continue typing short story. She plays game until 11 PM. After playing game, she goes to sleep.
Today is Thursday. Sari feels tired thinking the next words for her short story. She decides not to think for her short story for a while. On the other hand, Sari doesn’t know what she wants to do today. She feels bored now.
It is 2 PM now. Sari turns on her laptop and opens Microsoft Word. At this time, Sari opens new document. She wants to make a flash story (maybe we can say the very short story) to put in her blog. She has an idea to make a short story to put into her blog. She thinks about words which are better to put into this flash story. It takes several minutes for Sari to decide which words that she will type. Sari put a new flash story into her blog at 3.45 PM. After that, she browses facebook and chats with her friends those are online.
It is 8 PM now. Sari doesn’t have any mood to continue her short story. She is really confuse and doesn’t any idea. She thinks she couldn’t continue this short story anymore. She decides to play game rather than thinking about the difficult short story making. She goes to sleep after playing game at 10 PM. There is no continuing short story today.
Today is Friday. Sari listens to her favorite music. She doesn’t know what she should do. She just listens to music in this morning. She tries to forget about her 400 words short story for awhile. Sari just can hope her 1500 words short story can be done at the time. Sari thinks for the next parts of her short story. Finally, she knows the next texts she should type. She types, types, and types until 600 words appear on the monitor. Sari’s typing is stopped again by no idea.
It is 3.30 PM now. Sari can’t take it. She really was getting nowhere. She wants to give up now. However, she told herself, “Sari, if you can’t make 1500 words short story, you are really a loser.” That’s it! She can’t give up now. Sari tries to think harder to find an idea for the next words. Unluckily, Sari can’t find the best words to put in the next parts of her short story. Finally, Sari gives up and she deleted her short story that she hasn’t finished. “Hmm… it is better if I make new short story than thinking about this short story that is no any idea to continue anymore,” said sari in her mind again.
It is 8 PM now. Sari doesn’t have any idea for the new short story. She feels lazy to think now so she just listens to music without thinking anything. She just listens to music and then goes to sleep after feels sleepy. One day is passed by Sari like that.
Today is Saturday. Deadline goes nearer to Sari. Sari suddenly finds an idea to a short story about a high school student’s life. She takes some inspiration from Anime or Japanese animations she has watched. She types some words with her laptop’s keyboard. She thinks she can finish her short story with that theme. She types, types, and types until 253 words showed on the monitor. After Sari typed a lot of words, suddenly she thinks that this short story theme seems too common. She cancels her story with high school student’s life theme. By canceling that theme, it means that Sari needs to find another idea so she can make a short story. She is tired to look for another idea now. She hopes tomorrow she can get an idea and then make a short story successfully. She decides to sleep to calm down her brain.
Today is Sunday and it is 8 PM now. The submitting day will come to Sari in several hours. Sari needs to finish her short story today or she did not join Short Story competition. She starts to panic now because she hasn’t finds the right theme for her story telling. Seems sari won’t join this Short Story competition.
In the few hours left, suddenly Sari finds an idea. “Why not I make a story about someone that wants to join a Short Story competition but she has a problem with the number of words and idea. I think it can be interesting.” said Sari to herself. Without wasting any time, sari types quickly without thinking other things. Finally, Sari can make more than 1500 words short story. It is Sari’s first time in making more than 1500 words story. Sari decides the title of that short story is “Challenge with Words and Idea.” “Yeah! I am ready to send my short story to that competition tomorrow,” said Sari to herself happily.
In this story we can conclude that we can find many small things (for a lot of people) that can make us feel proud with ourselves. We can rise, grow, and bloom into a beautiful flower with starting from some small things. Feel proud with ourselves and never hesitate to do many positive things in our life!