Another week is coming to a close. Time to wrap things up with some Writing Sprints.
Everyone knows you need to warm up before sprinting, so let’s stretch our creativity with a few minutes of Random Word Improv.
Every Friday, my local country music station has a segment called “Fake Song Friday” during which visiting musicians are given several random words and a few minutes to come up with an impromptu song. The results are often amusing and always entertaining.
So, now it’s your turn.
- Pick a few words from the list of random words below (the more, the better)
- Write the first line(s) of a story incorporating your words
- Post your results in the comments section.
Here’s a list of random words from a randomly selected random word generator:
Pastoral someone bottle hometown
breathless nude passenger curfew
collarbone deadbeat werewolf beehive
daydream hammerhead wreckage plaid
raccoon alien dynamite applause
Ready? Go!
*whistling aimlessly while you are off being creative*
Ah, you’re back. Kind of fun, right? Can’t wait to see what you have come up with.
Now that you’re all warmed up, time to start sprinting.
As a reminder, the goal is to flex your writing skills and to jump start your creativity. It’s all about getting words on the page, not getting the perfect words on the page, so pull out that pen/paper, computer, or whatever your writing implements of choice are, and Write.
- Set a time period (i.e., 15 minutes)
- Write
- When you’re done, note your progress in the comments (i.e., “15 minutes and 394 words”)
- Rinse and repeat
I’ll be sprinting after work. I hope to see some fun creative efforts and good word counts in the comments to motivate my own efforts.
Happy writing to all.
Eight Ladies Writing 
I’ll post my own “random word” effort here, just to get the ball rolling.
My words were – hometown, pastoral, someone, bottle, nude, and racoon.
(-: Reminds me a little bit of the Great Mississippi (Missouri?) Squirrel Revival. I’d like to see more! (But not of Pastor Bob; put some *clothes* on, Reverend. LOL.)
Jamie looked around the room, surveying the wreckage, and wondered again whose brilliant idea it had been to coax the raccoon into the house in the first place. He knew the suggestion to dress it up in a kilt (god, there are scraps of plaid *everywhere*) had to have come from his deadbeat nephew Angus, who couldn’t be said to be “in his cups”, exactly, as he was swigging the whiskey straight from the bottle.
Good job Scott. I laughed out loud ad the racoon in a kilt.
I would totally read the rest of this story :-).
Officer Smith stood amid the wreckage of the Beehive Club. Deadbeat Dave sprawled, mercifully downwind, nude except for a scrap of plaid, strategically draped. Somebody should have told him that bringing a bottle of Old Bill’s legendary moonshine to a high-stakes game of ‘Werewolf, Hammerhead, Raccoon’ was asking for trouble.
Jilly – for bonus points, how exactly does one play “Werewolf, Hammerhead, Raccoon’? Inquiring minds want to know 🙂
Good question. Mr. W and I haven’t exactly ironed out the details yet, but we had fun arguing about it over dinner on Friday night 😉 .
Danette patted her beehive casually, hoping that the dagger hadn’t shifted to make an unseemly bump in her smooth and shining coiffure. She adjusted her plaid schoolgirl uniform, took another swig of tea from her whiskey bottle, and sighed–who knew it’d be so boring to be trolling for werewolves. (Thank you for permission to make line(s)!)
(-: Now, let me see what everyone else came up with.
Ooooh, great stuff here. This is a lot of fun–what writing should be about! Good list of random words.
Glad you enjoyed it Michaeline.
Love the dagger in the beehive. Now that’s a hairstyle that’s decorative *and* useful.
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