# LLMs.txt - Sitemap for AI content discovery # Learn more:https://www.minutetales.co.uk/ai-sitemap/ # Minute Tales > Minute Tales, or Stories you can Read in a Minute --- ## Pages - [Minute Tales](https://www.minutetales.co.uk/): If you gave me a minute—two minutes on occasion—could I tell you a tale that at least gets you thinking?... ## Posts --- # # Detailed Content ## Pages ### Minute Tales - Published: 2017-08-18 - Modified: 2024-09-09 - URL: https://www.minutetales.co.uk/ If you gave me a minute—two minutes on occasion—could I tell you a tale that at least gets you thinking? Would you feel your precious minute was wasted? Or would you think, "I didn't expect that? " I will try to do the latter if you give me a minute. Though fear I will fail. The concept behind Minute Tales is really quite simple. All the stories are short and ideally written in fewer than 250 words. I have chosen 250 words because the average person can read between 200 and 250 words in a minute. All the stories in Minute Tales are short, therefore minute, and can be read in around a minute. I'm sure you get my drift. More Thoughts on Minute Tales In a book, the author has time to develop a plot, add background information to the characters and let them grow within the tale. Some authors are better than others at this. After reading C. J. Tudor's "The Chalk Man," I have realised that I will never be able to write a story that keeps you interested for a long journey as well as she does. A place where your imagination rolls with the development of the story. So I need to do something different. I have an imagination that switches quickly from one thing to another, so I rarely finish anything. Add to this my motivational issues. I don't have the skills to stay on topic for any time. Hence, I am posting these... --- ## Posts