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Free for All!
Posted on July 26, 2003 in Book of Days Writing Exercises
Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.
Today’s topic: A free-for-all.
One of the warm-up exercises that I use works like this: you write a sentence. Then you write another sentence on another topic. The third sentence you begin must be on yet a new topic. And so on. It loosens the mind wonderfully:
The Doberman snarled visciously and wagged its tail. Years passed and the rock remained stationed against the door. Fiona Phosphor has a thing for the printer. We should have a monarchy and I should be king. Purple flavored heat baked the sanity from his sour, waxen skull. Triumph of the Will remains a favorite among film cognoscenti despite its fascist subject matter. “Jesus Wept” is the shortest verse in the Bible — I knew someone who used that to meet the weekly requirements of a Sunday school class. No blog owner should be hog-tied into allowing behavior that she would find offensive in her living room. My big toe swelled after I ate a healthy portion of a wedge of brie. I’ve lost my keys. Can you see the mountains behind my head, the ones with the radio towers grabbing the signals from Los Angeles and heaving them at Riverside? What do I write about next? Oh, you haven’t seen the beginning of the Democratic counterattack in this recall campaign! Money makes the world go around and the soul fly from virtue. I’ve often dived off the rocks at Crystal Cove, gone under, and broken the surface hoping that a sea change takes place. I wonder if Red Water Lily will write to these again? Believe for certain in what you can sense and hope for better times, better attitudes, better treatment. Stop! Ia! I am ready to quote something here just to fill the space. And so he came to the border crossing where the guards found his name in their little yellow book, declared him an undesirable, and brought him into the country to detain for a few months while they arranged his extradition — what a lousy vacation it turned out to be!
Try it sometime!
Want to participate? First either get yourself a copy of A Writer’s Book of Days by Judy Reeves or read these guidelines. Then either check in to see what the prompt for the day is or read along in the book.
Tomorrow’ topic/prompt: You’re in a movie theater.
