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Exercise #742: Your Thoughts
Posted 1/12/18
Today's exercise comes from Shirley. Thanks, Shirley!
First: use your imagination to come up with items for the twelve blanks written below. Write them down somewhere!
Woman’s Name (Fill in the blank)
Modern invention (Fill in the blank)
Adverb (Fill in the blank)
Country (Fill in the blank)
Adjective (Fill in the blank)
Man’s name (Fill in the blank)
Color, in earth tone (Fill in the blank)
Famous Historical Event (Fill in the blank)
Noun (Fill in the blank)
Pronoun (Fill in the blank)
Sarcastic remark (Fill in the blank)
Exclamation (Fill in the blank)
DO NOT READ FURTHER UNTIL YOU HAVE FILLED IN THE TWELVE BLANKS and LISTED THEM INDIVIDUALLY ONE BELOW THE OTHER.
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Got your items? No? Go back up and do that first.
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Now, use these twelve words/phrases to write a story. Use the words in the order provided. Leave the ‘fill-in’ words in caps to identify them and work them into the story.
Critiquers, along with the usual grammar, spelling, etc, review, also consider this question:
* Was the author successful in weaving in the twelve items in a creative and fun way? Why or why not?
Please note the much larger word limit; this piece should be a complete story.
Word limit: 2500
Please use the subject line:
SUB: Exercise #742/yourname
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