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Writing Exercises: Week Six

10 years ago

Everyone is welcome to join in, doing as many or as few of the exercises as they'd like. ^_^

This thread will include exercises for Monday 9/22 to Friday 9/26.

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Monday, September 15, 2014:

Write five first sentences.

Use at least one of the following themes: travel, weather, a marketplace, a vivid color.

Bonus: Expand one of your sentences into a scene.

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Red. The swirling color of death, sloshing out from him; a vivid painting, painted with the canvas of the man's body. 

Andre stood on the precipice of the mountain, breathing in the fresh air... until it collapsed from under him. 

Markets are cheery places; colorful, filled with the hustle and bustle of every day life. But this one was empty... 

The tornado struck faster than one could comprehend, upending houses and dumping their inhabitants out to the streets. 

There's a certain risk in using an online dating site. Katrina had yet to find this out. 

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Cyan; unlike its peers, this hue in particular emphasized brilliant energy.

Like an ocean of flowery reds, violets, yellows, and greens, the Bazaar was in full throttle for Spring.

Three seconds.  Breathe in.  Ascend.  Three seconds.  Exhale.  Descend.  A flash of red comes, but passes as the current carries you an inch aside.

I found the gravel beneath my feet particularly crumbly; unlike the mud that my soles slapped upon to no avail, these particles crunched as they gave way to my weight.  It felt...alive.

Self - Challenge (using ALL THEMES) : For Thiali, the Spinning Lanterns was the only impressionable thing she could remember; so much fire of yellow, orange, red, white, all these cheery hues birthed from the somber blue, the same blue that painted the violet-cerulean sky itself during that evening.

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Late entry, but wanted to do it anyways.

Even if it doesn't count

1. The storm cloud dappled the sky, but I still held out for clear skies for our voyage into space to begin.

2. The various stalls of tanned hides and foreign spices made my eyes water and stopped me from observing my charge for just long enough for everything to go to hell.

3. The bright green scarf  tied tightly around her throat did not seem to  be much use, since she was naked in a blizzard.

4. Heaving the bundle of my meager possessions over my left shoulder, I took one last look at the town I had brought to  ruin.

5. Lillian made her way through the crowded marketplace with her usual dancer's grace, while stealing anything she could get her hands on.

 

Bonus

Heaving the bundle of my meager possessions over my left shoulder, I took one last look at the town I had brought to  ruin. It was not destroyed like one would expect a ruined town to be. I worked more subtle than that. I worked on the people. I had twisted their minds with this silver tipped tongue of mine. I turned friend against friend. I made sons and daughter fight with their parents. I caused fights to break out. I caused thievery. I caused vandalism. I caused murder. I was a being that feed off such chaos.

I  could not remember a time where I was not causing some mischief in some place or another. It was my point of existence. It was the only thing I knew. Love, loyalty, honor, humility, compassion, and other such things were repulsive. Those qualities seemed to burn at me. They seemed to serve as a fuel for my rage, for my need to manipulate. They were alien. I never felt any of those things. Why should I respect and allow others to have such feelings, when I was denied them?

That last town had been infuriating at first. That is why I had chose it. It was a carefree little community. There were few grudges. There was mainly happy families going about their happy lives. It was disgusting. I started with my little pushes. These were just nudges toward negative emotions. They weren't strong, but they gave me an idea of what people were best to use and what people would resist most of what I could throw at them.

After those nudges, I worked my way up. I began inspiring arguments, insecurities, depression, and rage. One girl, who was quite susceptible to my inspired depression, ended up killing herself before my first week in the time. She wasn't bad compared to the rest.  Her  nature was insecure in the first place. I think she was the only not happy one in the whole town. She was a homosexual and fell isolated. My depression turned her into a complete mess. She came out. Her parents helped out by berating her. Then she ended up taking her life. The effects of  that was probably was lead to the complete ruin of the town.

Death has an effect, especially unexpected death. Murders and suicides are beautiful outcomes for me. They spend through the town like a disease. The extend a darkness, a shadow of negative emotion. I makes what I do easier. It makes people more susceptible to me. That is why that town was ruined so quickly. It lasted a mere three weeks before I turned everyone against each other.

Turning away, I began my search for the next place where I would create my chaos. The winds seemed to always pull me towards a place where I could sink my teeth into, where I could manipulate to my heart's desire. 

Yet a vague feeling pulled at me. It was loneliness. I knew it well. It was a constant distraction to me. Pushing it away, I continued on.

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On the face of the smooth, frozen snow, was the beautiful shine of the sky, the color of multiple colors combined, the vivid color of yellow...                               

The bag was weighing Tim down, as he walked along the flowing river, until the looming mountains peeked up from above, and he finally began to realize the beauty of nature.

The cinder blocks exploded in front of Matt, ripping the building to pieces, before he felt the pull of the twisting storm, and he was sent flying hundreds of feet into the air.

With the sun shining, it was a perfect day to go shopping at the market... until the aliens came and killed everyone.

Dark... cold... the frostbite was setting in; the skies were unleashing their frozen torment, as Kate stumbled through the desolate snow, certain to meet her undesired fate.

 

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

First person, second person, third person. Pick two, and write the same basic scene twice.

Bonus: Do all three.

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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(Sorry this is so late, folks. Work has been crazy.)

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Why not try...let's say first and third?

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Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Worldbuilding! Pick a prestigious or otherwise interesting job in your world. Now explain how you become qualified for that job.

Bonus: Write a scene from the perspective of someone who already has such a job, revisiting their place of education.

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Corpomancy - The Study of Anatomy and the Side Effects Through Change

Corpomancers are considered the anatomical Einsteins of Berschtalt, a city taking place in the same world as the Gilded City.  Officially the second-most productive expanse by workers per square inch, Berschtalt relies heavily on manpower to get clockworks and forges running; the city's main export are weapons.  Magic.  Weapons.

Due to the dangerous nature of 90% of all workers either burning, getting crushed, or being impaled by some numbnut's sad attempt to jar the gears with a rod, the doctors have all been prepared to weave their way to their patients wherever they might be, and then perform an on-the-fly surgery.  Less than .5% of the world's population ever get to a medical specialist level, but those who do revolutionize technology.  Corpomancers, based in this dangerous city, run trials on cripples all the time, with varying results.

Certain innovative tattoo designs allow the brain to conduct signals to prosthetics, and nerve repair exists in previously limp body regions.  The blind can see...though the operation to do so is costly and has only a .4% success rate, but nevertheless, the work a Corpomancer does is astounding.

In order to become qualified for training, one must have already been a medical practitioner / specialist of GREAT worth.  In field headed only by prodigies, there is no room for error, for even the best of those men must continue to toil against orthodox practices in favor of exotic ways of thinking, lest they create a study of regulations and suing.

It is then where these hopefuls will receive a black letter, written in gold ink, an invite to Berschtalt, so that they can study surgery there.  After 5-20 years, the initiate will then take a rigorous study course on nodes, nerves, and other things relating to bodily movement and functions.

By the way, there are no "official" corpomancers, due to the different ways each practitioner takes.  Instead, they're given a research license, as 100% of a Corpomancer's patients are required to be recorded and turned in at specific intervals.  Depending on the success of the research, Corpomancers will be funded millions of crowns, with the minimum wage 1.2~ mil.  Still, Corpomancers are known to live in poor conditions from lack of time to take care of themselves.

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Thursday and Friday Combo Edition! (sorry folks)

Interview your character(s) while they're in the middle of doing something important!

 

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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@Danaos @NightBirdBlue @betaband @31TeV @Briar_Rose @ISentinelPenguinI @TaraGil @the_quiller @jamescoker1226 @LostConnection @Kiel_Farren @Cynical @ItAintPretty @Swiftstryker @TacocaT @Romulus @coins @Malkalack @Virtualide @Morgan_R @Fireplay @nmelssx @mek7

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Morgan... Morgan? You still there? 

*Ahem* Sorry

HOOO's home? 

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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[I'm seriously inclined to have you start this up again.]

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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[I'm seriously inclined to have you start this up again.]

Fixed that for you. ^_^

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Some one should do this again.

Writing Exercises: Week Six

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Hmmm...