~ Ingredients:
- Any novel of your choice
- Laptop*
*preferably one equipped with MS word though any other note-taking device/notebook would do
~ Directions:
- Preheat* your brain to 180° C
- Flip through the pages of your novel and pause abruptly at a random page. Choose 5 subjects from this page.
- Repeat experiment, and this time choose 5 verbs from the randomized page you landed on.
- Repeat one last time and finally, select 5 objects from this page.
- Try to blend together as many words as you can from the lists you just compiled.
- Enjoy the nonsense that results! :)
*You can do this in a number of ways:
1) Pick up a random novel (or choose one you've already started on) and read 5-10 pages from it.
2) Peruse The Daily Star, Huffington Post, The New York Times, or any other online/print newspaper.
3) Dig into your Twitter/Facebook feed.
Bottom line? Get those juices in your brain nicely flowing and all warmed up in any way possible.
Below is my own experimentation:
the dog is hiding from me
so my pocket-knife begins to whisper:
the baloney just lies there;
why are we out of coffee?
I realize it’s raining, but no scarf to wear.
The humming birds outside are bathing and scratching,
in my dreams, the smurfs smile in the snow.
The pope must vacuum too, it’s creepy --
Heat is lovely but does it achieve?
Why do we have only one tree yet many cherries?
Even tulips slowly swindle me as the sunshine penetrates:
Shall I rise?
The pacific ocean passionately tears for cancer,
I ponder about surfing in the grains of sand --
I must create…so…
I live on paper.
*Why not give this experiment a try and share in the comments section below the result of your *own* experimentation!? :)
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