Back in the middle of last November, my friends were participating in NaNoWriMo. I wasn't writing anything, myself, but I wanted to help. I remembered that back in my senior year of High School I had a wonderful English teacher who had all of us participate in this creative exercise almost every day. Her exercise involved one word, given at random, that we had to spend five minutes writing about. It could be about the word itself, or a story that is inspired by that word.
I wanted to give this to my friends as something to do when they reached a mental block. Sometimes writing about something completely random will help get things turning again- as well as get some mental frustrations down on paper- before moving on to your official project. My version is a bit more complicated, however.
I use a random word generator found on the internet to create sets of three words, and offer a time limit of twenty minutes. It may seem at times that three random words would have absolutely nothing in common, but it's up to a writer to find a way to make them fit into a page's worth of words.
If you want to try this out, feel free! My list of words will follow in the next post. I'd also be delighted to have it posted here- just let me know and I'll either post it myself or add you as an author. Tags will be the word sets used.
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