One Word
Originally posted on my LJ a few days ago. Could be of interest to the non-ljers too…
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I found this site: www.oneword.com
It’s a writing tool. They give you a new word every day and 60 seconds to write anything about it. ANYTHING. Ideally the word inspires you. You don’t even have to use that word in your writing. You just have to write.
I’ve been doing it on and off for a few weeks and it’s a good exercise before I delve into writing something that’s actually important.
Here are a few of my better ones…
PANE
Rainwater collected inside the pane. The window installers told me that this wouldn’t happen, but of course installers are here to install things and collect money, not install things then re-install them correctly.
Seems everyone in this fucking country is trying to fuck everyone else. Sometimes in the crotch. But more often in the wallet.
BLONDE
In Ohio, I don’t see many blonde guys. Do they dye their hair? Does the ocean beckon them telepathically, turning them into surfers? I’m blonde. As is my entire family. Together, we just might be the blondest force in the midwest.
None of us have every been surfing.
PURPLE
My eyes throbbed with excrucuating terror. The whites become purple. The blacks became white. The salt was slowly melting away my ability to see. This is what I get for watching YTMND. I deserve to be punished.
LOCKED
The cat was taking its afternoon nap on the window sill when I heard a CLICK. Father had his gun. Frightened for my cat’s life, I leapt up from my chair and begged him to put it down.
Locked and loaded, father was determined to have his his revenge. I had poisoned his dog only two days previous.
OBSCURE
“Good god, man. How obscure is that reference?”.
I laughed. Pete had no idea that the reference was from a 1970’s conspiracy film about how milk is a waste by-product of cows - as opposed to it being a nourishing life juice for calves… and humans.
“You’ll just have to get used to it, Pete. I’m milking this for all it’s worth.”