Clues - writercize #AtoZChallenge 3.3

Please note: writercize (a portmanteau of write and exercise with a z for ... a twist? fun? street cred?) is participating in the A to Z Challenge through the month of April with alphabetical writing prompts. I'm skipping the stories behind the prompts so you can spend more time practicing and less time reading! Please participate, and enjoy!

writercize: To improve your descriptive skills, practice viewing objects in a room not by their title, but what they are. 

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Do not look at a roll of tape and call it a roll of tape - call it a sticky ribbon wound in a circle. Don't look at a pen and call it a pen - call it a cylinder of ink. 

For today's writercize, compose a clue about an object in your room, and see if we can guess what it is!

I love reading your comments and especially your writercize results, so please, drop me a line to let me know if this worked for you! Better yet, share your attempt with the world in your comment! 

Click "read more" for writercizer sample response. 

Note - It is a true story about being lost in translation - based on a conversation that occurred during my first week studying abroad in Italy, in a city where very little English is spoken, after only six months of studying Italian. I figured I could challenge myself by not referring to a dictionary, and instead use the word I knew to describe whatever I wanted to say. At time, it could be quite ... interesting. On one occasion, I thought I was asking for the bill, and apparently asked for a pot of sake instead. The question below took place in a drugstore.

writercizer sample response:

Here is how I described what I needed to the store clerk. Can you guess what it was? 

I need something to clean that will not cause an infection. It should not be hard like a rock, but it should be soft. But not soft like a toy - soft like milk or water. It is made for skin.

Not the most eloquent or direct, but I did eventually get what I needed, and we all chuckled a little at my ridiculous attempt at "fluent" conversation!

---By the way, had I used the English words with a forced Italian accent (adding a vowel at the end of every word), they probably would have understood immediately. I later learned that the words I was trying to convey are almost identical in English and Italian.