This Week's Exercise

[dogzilla30]

Use this as a timed freewrite exercise, or make pretty diagrams with words as a brainstorming method to write a scene or story based on the following words:

authors
sense
nearly
men's
party

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[silentmarc]

This is short enough to post here:

“This is horrible!” Tony exclaimed. “Pour me another drink.”

“I don’t see what’s so bad about it,” Sheila answered, grabbing his tumbler from his hand and filling it liberally with whisky.

“Of course you wouldn’t. You’re crazy for them. Can’t get nearly enough.”

“That’s true,” Sheila said, leaning against the wall and sighing dreamily as a tall, handsome man walked by. “You always throw the best parties.”

“Just like Mary Tyler Moore.” Tony grumbled some more, and took a healthy swig from his glass. “It just doesn’t make any sense. I invited Martina, Stacy, -and- Monique, and all of them said they’d come. They said they’d bring friends!”

“Bah! Who needs ‘em! Plenty of company right here. Besides, what are you upset about? You’re gay: you should be enjoying these men’s parties.”

Tony looked at her, shocked. “Sheila! It’s not the men that’s giving me the problem. It’s that all of these people are bloody -authors-!”

[dogzilla30]

Bravo! I had to reread it twice to find all of the words there; none of them stuck out at all which is one of the difficulties of using a list of words.

[silentmarc]

Thanks. I wrote it between calls at my horribly uninspiring job.