Assignment #1 was to give your imagination a little kick. If it didn't work for you, don't worry. No exercise works for everybody. I hope that by Sunday you will have clicked with at least one exercise.
Assignment #2: Word Lists--designed to help you connect with the words that have meaning for you.
Make three lists, twenty words each:
- Your favorite nouns (people, places, things)
- Your favorite verbs (action words)
- Your favorite modifiers (adjectives and adverbs, such as "glossy" (adj) and "wearily" (adv)
You can work quickly, or do this more deliberately and thoughtfully.
Once you come up with the lists, then quickly write to the side of each word the first thing that comes to mind when you see that word.
Play around with these lists, highlighting the top ten words, putting them in order of importance, highlighting the ones you use most often--or least often--in speaking or writing.
That's it! Have fun . . .
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