Cafe Puccini - Mini-Story [Effortless English DVD1 > LV3 > 01]

The short story in the Mini-Story of the Cafe Puccini lesson

Okay, effortless English members. Welcome to the mini story for the article Cafe Puccini. All right, let’s get started. 

Mike is a writer. But he's not a normal writer, he is a very controversial writer. Liberal people love him, conservative people hate him. Mike is famous in the American literary scene. He helped to make history by challenging Steven King to a competition. He said to King "I am the best writer in America. I challenge you to a competition to prove who best writer really is". Steven King accepted. 

They decided to hold the competition in New York City. Both writers sat at the table with the pen, some paper, and a clock. They had only 10 minutes to write. Stephen King wrote calmly and slowly. he seemed very confident. 

Mike was very animated. He shook his head, he moved his feet, he smiled, he frowned, he cried and he laughed, as he wrote. After 10 minutes, they finished. 

A group of writers read their papers. They decided that both papers were so good. They could not pick a winner. Everybody else was shocked.  

Though there was not a clear winner. This competition started a new movement called "fast writing". Suddenly, everywhere in America, writers try to write quickly. Many writers try to copy Mike and Steven King‘s  fast writing style.  But unfortunately, most of them were terrible. No one could beat  Stephen King and Mike.

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