Friday, September 12, 2008

Funsize

If you are having a bad case of writer's block or simply don't know what to do or where to go next here's a an idea. Take a random image or idea: a model, a house, a cat, a tree, a shoe, etc. Take this image and describe it's physical apperance in meticulous details. Follow this up with a new paragraph going in depth. Perhaps the model has sad eyes or the house has one window with the blinds down, why is that? Take that and you can either elaborate for practice if it goes nowhere, or you might get a whole story (idea) out of this excercise. Try it!

Here's an example:
His head (is it his head?) is curved smoothly like an egg made of soft gel. Speckles imitating a leopards only set against a clear body. Everything is clear, the ocean sets a soft, ethereal glow through the skin of the being. It's whispy, whiskery appendages float around it, a torn and tattered dress that still clings with its last intact strands. Behind this unsuccessful viel float bigger appendages, ruffled and soft and glowing with the ocean's magic. They scrunch and extend to push the magnificent thing through it's magical home.

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