Thursday, March 5, 2009

Twenty-Five Words for March 209

A writing exercise I like from my Brown Bag writing group is “Twenty-Five Words.” We go around the table and, one by one, say a word (or short phrase.) It can be any word that comes to mind, or sometimes words based upon a pre-determined theme. The object of the exercise is to write a story using as many of the words (or short phrases)as possible. Here are twenty-five words for March. Set your timer for thirty minutes and try to write children’s short story. Try to use as many of the words as possible.

Brown cub
Spring is coming
Wait a minute
Flower
Petal
Rain
Smiling faces
Before you say anything
Ants
Juliette
Money
Honey
Bunches
Glamorous
Preposterous
Did you say something?
And then..
Cookies
Oodles
Poodles
Noodles
Kaboodles
Oh stop!
Strudels
You did it again