My five random words for today’s exercise are frog, shirt, egg, candle, tank.
Chosen word for free association: tank
The Tank, Rangely, sound
Exercise:
Reverb. Sound, circling and climbing. Sussurations swirl in a space made for slaking the thirst of steam-powered iron dragons from last century, now repurposed to send messages in song.
(This post is a reference to The Tank, near Rangely, Colorado.)
My five random words for today’s exercise are holly, young man, arch (again?), poverty, and fever.
Chosen word for free association: arch (since it seems to be insistent)
lintel, keystone, rival, enemy, angel
Exercise:
All of the arches in Rylaain were magically imbued with the souls of people. But over time, even souls fade, and centuries on, only one arch remained among the rubble of its peers to tell the tale of their civilization: the Temple Arch. There’s something to be said for the permanence of an angel’s soul.
My five random words for today’s exercise are pin, mosquito, arch, film, and porch.
Chosen word for free association: film
movie, thin layer, protective, false, obscuring, veneer
Exercise:
Of his former self, only a thin surface layer still remained. The transformation had taken years, and now the only recognizable thing tying him to the past was an invisible veneer of guilt, clinging to the surface of his skin like living armor.
(As noted in my last post, today begins the February Word Challenge proposed by J.T. Evans.)
My five random words for today’s exercise are chapel, masking tape, peanut, gang, and copier.
Chosen word for free association: copier
photocopy, scribe, illuminated manuscript, The Secret of Kells, tower, Vikings, raids
Exercise:
Smoke drifted on the Irish wind, obscuring at times the high crosses and five-windowed tower of the Kells monastery. The Book rested safely on its pedestal, high in the tower, while Viking raiders circled below, oblivious to its presence.
(Well, that’s not much, but it’s only a 10 minute exercise.)
J.T. Evans is a Colorado Springs writer, and he issued a challenge to his writer friends. In a nutshell, he’s challenging us to complete a daily ten minute writing exercise, recording each day’s process in our blogs (or Facebook Timelines, or whatever.) Direct from the link above:
The challenge goes like this:
J.T. is using a Perl script to generate his prompts, but for those who are not sure they have time to learn Perl in the 28 days before the contest ends, he generously provided this link, as well.
I’m going to give this a shot. I’m doing a lot of musical stuff right now, too, but I should be able to manage ten minutes per day. I want something to help keep my writing skills sharp, even if my creativity focus has shifted a bit at the moment.
