Hi writer friends,
Today is Feb 4, the day for a list of five inspiring words starting with D and a sentence using them all. My picture today shows two D's: daughter and dog!
Enjoy!
cheers,
Laura
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- DORMANT VOLCANO. There are many places where volcanos are quiet, brooding. Now they are dormant but someday they can awaken and blow magma and ash into the sky. I remember Mt. St. Helens went from a quiet, snow-capped mountain to an inferno in about 24 hours or so. Write about someone who is caught in the transition.
- HOLE IN THE CLOUDS. My husband's blog talks about his sensing a hole in the clouds, here: http://michael-walkingwiththespirit.blogspot.com/2012/02/hole-in-sky.html , That made me think about times when the clouds did something that transfixed me. Think about a time the clouds were amazing. Describe the clouds and also the scene, where you were, with whom, any conversation.
- STRAWBERRIES. A friend put a great picture of a single strawberry on her blog. It reminded me of Gayle Brandeis's exercise where she passed out berries, one each, and asked us to do a sensory exploration of our berry. It was delicious in so many ways, the little dimpled seeds, glossy red flesh, fresh berry scent, soft silky feel, and taste---yum. Try that yourself. It's better even than it sounds. Then write about all the sensory overload.
- TASTE. Starting with brushing your teeth, try to describe each thing you taste for a half an hour in words as exact as possible. Imagine you are obsessive about taste, and don't let your awardeness slip off the tip of the tongue.
- CONNECTION. Start by observing closely and writing a small stone, a description of an intense experience. Now think about giving this experience to a character. After a few minutes of mulling it over, write a few paragraphs putting your character in to the situation suggested by your small stone.
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- Book of Live Wires, Gayle Brandeis
- The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obecht
- The Foremost Good Fortune, Susan Conley
- Gratitude, Richard Powers
- History of Love, Nicole Krauss
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- A professor of molecular biology turned creative writer, Laura writes short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for magazines, anthologies, and newspapers, has a memoir, Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling, published in 2011, and has two novels and a biography of Two Women of the RNA World in progress. She received a Certificate in Creative Writing with Distinction in June, 2009 from UCLA and is halfway through the MFA in fiction at SDSU.
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13 comments:
deleterious, delitescent, diet, disgusted, discouraged, discussion, diatribe, distressing, disasters
My deleterious diet, including delitescent Ding-Dongs, (squirreled away in the oven where I knew my husband would not look), disgusted and discouraged me, causing me to direct an internal discussion - a diatribe, really, about the distressing disasters that awaited me if I didn't do things differently.
daughter, dog, dubious, dragonfly, delicious
My daughter was dubious that the dog would find cheese delicious, but he proved it, wagging away the dragonfly with his tail as he snapped it up.
Dear Cheryl,
This one is so funny! I can imagine a whole story written in that voice.
best,
Laura
dare, dive, dog, double, duck
I double dog dare you to dive like a duck!
diligent, delightful, daughter, dreams, destiny
I am the delightful daughter of my dreams, diligently working toward my destiny.
dastardly, dramatic, dullard, dalmatic, dentate
With a dramatic gesture, Enoch draped Theodore with a dalmatic ornamented with dentate red leaves and Dougald the atheist dullard yelled, "Dastardly."
Joyce B
daisy, dalmatian, digitalis, dianthus, delphinium
"You doltish dalmatian," Benjamin croaked, 'can't you tell a daisy from a digitalis or a dianthus from a delphinium?"
Cathy B
diapause, dingbat, dormouse, dalliance, dubious
Dubious dalliance by a dormouse cannot break the diapause of a dingbat, can it?
Isabelle P
dusty, drab, dingy, daily, droplet
The dusty, drab, dingy ring sparkled anew each morning after Susan gave it a daily polish with a droplet of morning dew.
Meredith S
delirious, demented, doctoral, dent, distance
Although Mark thought her demented to try driving there, Kate was delirious with happiness when her car made it the whole distance to her doctoral award ceremony in spite of the huge dent in the front fender from the accident.
Cathy M
donkey, devious, diva, donut, dustpan
The devious diva sent George out for a donut so he would not see her sweep up the broken decanter with the painted donkey on it with a dustpan.
Bismarck
drapery, dittany, disabled, dragon, dross
Stephen took off his court drapery, drank the dittany wine Eloise had left him, disabled his sword by blunting the tip, chipped the diamond eye out of the dragon on its handle, and whispered "Dross," as he threw it behind the door.
Catalan
dragoman, dangerous, drunken, distant, dogbane
The dangerous, drunken dragoman undertook an expedition to a distant land to obtain the dogbane he needed for his quest.
Joseph T
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