3.22.2011

Next Word - writercize #10

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

4 comments:

  1. tall
    long
    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)

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  2. short gnome
    hollow tree
    shady character
    ring wedding
    pool of tears

    ugh don't know if any of that makes sense. But thanks for the interesting prompt!

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  3. Short - coming
    Hollow - log
    Shady - lady
    Ring - of fire
    Pool - of darkness

    Now, the trick is to use all these words in a one-page story! :0)

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  4. I love seeing how these answers are all different! Thanks for posting your connections!

    Dawn - indeed; it's almost as though you've read my mind on a future writercize. ;)

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