Answering a Challenge
Oct. 3rd, 2004 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateI was rolling around LiveJournal, searching for interesting things to do and found this:
(adizzi) wrote in writingworkout,
@ 2004-08-20 16:29:00
off the top of your head, without thinking a lot about them, write a paragraph using the following as themes, cues, quotes, titles or departure points. post yours in your journal and link to it in the comments here.
the point is to improvise, if you're open to it. to get the full thing out of it, don't look until you're ready to write:
1. ninety-five seconds
2. tragic lips
3. one thousand apples, give or take
4. burned
5. statue of an emperor
6. someone's summer
7. fantasies of despotic power
8. t. p. tea shoppe
9. carlo's dilemma
10. [superlative] evening ever
Hence, my answer:
Ninety-five seconds is all you have left my nemesis. What are you to do with the rest of your life? Do you pout your tragic lips and start to blubber on about those one thousand apples, give or take, that you never got to eat? The poison you mistakenly drank burned down your esophagus. The poison was put into the cup, with the purple pimpernel mark on it, that you left at the base of Emperor Ling’s statue. Last summer, you never dreamed that something like this could happen to you. You thought you were invulnerable. Like Saddam Hussein, you were filled with fantasies of despotic power; never suspecting that behind every sip you took in the Tart Petite Tea Shoppe could be your last. You have met with the end that was Carlo’s dilemma. That’s right, he’s the one who decided your evening was over. Isn’t life grand?
(adizzi) wrote in writingworkout,
@ 2004-08-20 16:29:00
off the top of your head, without thinking a lot about them, write a paragraph using the following as themes, cues, quotes, titles or departure points. post yours in your journal and link to it in the comments here.
the point is to improvise, if you're open to it. to get the full thing out of it, don't look until you're ready to write:
1. ninety-five seconds
2. tragic lips
3. one thousand apples, give or take
4. burned
5. statue of an emperor
6. someone's summer
7. fantasies of despotic power
8. t. p. tea shoppe
9. carlo's dilemma
10. [superlative] evening ever
Hence, my answer:
Ninety-five seconds is all you have left my nemesis. What are you to do with the rest of your life? Do you pout your tragic lips and start to blubber on about those one thousand apples, give or take, that you never got to eat? The poison you mistakenly drank burned down your esophagus. The poison was put into the cup, with the purple pimpernel mark on it, that you left at the base of Emperor Ling’s statue. Last summer, you never dreamed that something like this could happen to you. You thought you were invulnerable. Like Saddam Hussein, you were filled with fantasies of despotic power; never suspecting that behind every sip you took in the Tart Petite Tea Shoppe could be your last. You have met with the end that was Carlo’s dilemma. That’s right, he’s the one who decided your evening was over. Isn’t life grand?
