Hello writercizers! I'm coming off a busy writing day, and I'd love to do some simple word association to just relax the brain.
Growing up, I can remember teachers using a very simple icebreaker to fill time on the bus for field trips or indoor recess days. In the game, teachers would say a word, and students would free associate the next word that came to mind. It's an interesting study on how your mind makes connections and relationships between ideas.
writing exercise: Look at the list of words below and type your instinctual response to each word. Feel free to simply state the next word or evaluate your response.
- short
- hollow
- shady
- ring
- pool
(Click "read more" for writercizer sample response.)
writercizer response:short: sighted
hollow: simple
shady: forest
ring: telephone
pool: money
tall
ReplyDeletelong
dark
fat
deadly
hmmm.... the first three are just words, the last two: my wedding ring is too small at the moment, we have an unfenced, uncovered current pool in our new backyard (we have to do something about that)
short gnome
ReplyDeletehollow tree
shady character
ring wedding
pool of tears
ugh don't know if any of that makes sense. But thanks for the interesting prompt!
Short - coming
ReplyDeleteHollow - log
Shady - lady
Ring - of fire
Pool - of darkness
Now, the trick is to use all these words in a one-page story! :0)
I love seeing how these answers are all different! Thanks for posting your connections!
ReplyDeleteDawn - indeed; it's almost as though you've read my mind on a future writercize. ;)