Next Word - writercize #71

Who's ready for a little easy breezy word play fun?  Next word is a writing prompt that I post once every month or so where I list five words and you free associate to the next word.  It's fun.  It's mindless.  It's revealing to see how you relate words to one another.

I imagine the game has roots in my mind attached to Step by Step, a TGIF sitcom from the eighties.  I specifically remember the goofy, dim-witted character Cody trying to remember where he left his keys, and to find them, he free-associated a list of twenty-plus words before arriving at the conclusion.  

There is no doubt that I do the same thing in my daily life, but silently.  My husband often looks at me with a confused look on his face, and I know it's not just the fact we speak two different mother tongues.  It's because something he has said triggered another idea or two or three in my mind, and I don't open my mouth to respond until I'm so far down the chain of thoughts that he has no clue how the discussion is relevant.  I forget he is unable to read all those silent rapid-fire thoughts in my head.  If only I'd married a mind-reader, I suppose ...

Ok, on to the game ...

writing exercise:  Write down the first word that comes to mind for each of these five words:

• frame
• bottle
• castle
• blink
• white

I always love to see the basis for the association, so share your reasoning if you are so inclined!

Click "read more" to see writercizer sample response.

writercizer sample response:

frame - set-up (as in, "I was framed!")

bottle - message (notes from a deserted island sent as a message in a bottle)

castle - gab (gift of, from Blarney)

blank - check (if only!)

white - horse