Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Alphabet Game


Just started doing a warm-up writing exercise that I was told about at the AWP conference. Every day for 26 days, before you work on whatever it is you're working on, do 5 minutes. Day 1: every word you can think of that starts with "a". Day 2: every word you can think of that starts with "b," and so on.

It is supposed to lure you into paying attention to language, to word, to sound.

Here are my favorites from my first two days.
A
alert
ankle
anteater
apple
anchor

B
bracken
boom
beekeeper
blanket
barnacle

May you find your own alphabet....

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