Want to play a creative writing game?

[Melanie]

Anyone interested just for fun? There's several little things we did on creative writing course to help spark ideas, we could start it here and post?

[Melanie]

How about 'spark an idea' - nice and quick...So you post a word, next person makes a sentence with it and then posts the next random word at the end for the next person to use. The story can be continuous or random sentences, whatever you feel like.

The idea is to help get you just writing anything with using any word - it's a good technique if you've got writers block or aren't sure what to do with a story you're working on - just give yourself words and make yourself use them.

Let's start! :)

BLUE

[aside*from*writing]

Today it was a pale powdery colour, filled with sunlight as I sat lazily dipping my spoon into the ice cream sundae that was melting in front of me.

TELEVISION

[Emily V, Head Mod]

Whilst staring at the moon I realised the rumours were true, there was a man on the moon!

[aside*from*writing]

Emily - you forgot the next word :)

[Emily V, Head Mod]

Oops!

Pillow (random I know)

[[deleted user]]

As the sunshine skidded over the horizon at dawn, I suddenly realized that I had to get Theyer inside before he burned to crisp.

awaiting

[Melanie]

the pile of papers I'd been ignoring since Monday were still on my desk awaiting my attention; but I turned my back on them once again. School work wouldn't help me now

MAMMOTH

[Stephanie (Bookfever)]

I smiled when I heard the sound of the snow crunching beneath my boots. I loved it.

SWITCHED

[[deleted user]]

When I switched around the two drinks, little did I know that one was lethal.

leaves

[Stephanie (Bookfever)]

As the music blared loudly through the speakers, I scanned the club for the vampire I was going to kill.

WINTER

[[deleted user]]

As I walked through the woods, the harsh winter winds whipped against my face.

WOOD

[Melanie]

The rotting wood splintered beneath my fingers as my hands slammed into the door.

FLUTTER

[[deleted user]]

I saw the butterfly's wings flutter before it landed on the flower.

BUG

[[deleted user]]

When I go on the computer, it's really hard for me to get off.

illusion

[Michael]

I thought that Spongebob Squarepants was a new hipster movement. One day I chanced upon the cartoon of it and from then on I was hooked.

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happiness

[Melanie]

The beat of the music in the club pounded in my ears making my bones vibrate.

chicken

[[deleted user]]

I like to play outside when it's cold and raining.

Saphire

[Emily V, Head Mod]

The ocean was the colour of a glittering sapphire.

Octopus

[Melanie]

I counted the cookies on the plate over and over again as I pretended to myself that I wasn't hungry.

ladybird

[[deleted user]]

When I looked through my new binoculars, I saw a ladybird in a tree.

dinosaur

[Melanie]

The dinosaur skeleton was tiny - just little sticks of creamy-white bone - and it cracked apart as my huge foot came down on it.

CHOCOLATE

[Emily V, Head Mod]

Her eyes were a deep chocolate brown with flecks of caramel, my stomach rumbled involuntarily.

Firefly

[Melanie]

the strange light hovered outside my bedroom window - I tried not to look at it, but it remained, just floating there. I closed my eyes and hoped it was a firefly.

CALLED

[aside*from*writing]

"Why hasn't he called? WHY hasn't he called? WHY HASN'T HE CALLED?"

"Erm - maybe because you're a little high-maintenance?"

SPANNER

[Emily V, Head Mod]

I got into my car in a hurry, I was going to be late for the second time. I started the car and set off, there was a bang and I stopped the car. I had blown a tire running over a spanner. I was going to be very late.

Moonstone

[aside*from*writing]

"If you're going to do that you'll need a moonstone." The woman offered helpfully. What the hell is a moonstone? I wondered.

SPARKLE

[Emily V, Head Mod]

Real vampires don't sparkle, in fact real MEN don't sparkle!

Toast

[Hayley]

"Is it even possible to burn toast?" I asked exasperatedly as I stared at the blackened items on my plate, completely unidentifiable as the item of food people called bread.
"Well, you're staring at an example of-
"It was a rhetorical question." I cut him off moodily.

Advantages

[Becky]

There were few advantages to having a snarky roomate that complained about everything I did, from burning my toast to having an unusual obsession with medieval weaponry.

DISCOMBOBULATED

[Michael]

I could feel another fit coming. I had suffered them ever since I was a child. No doctor could tell me what caused them and it could happen at any time.

I would suddenly blurt out a word like DISCOMBOBULATED at the most inappropriate moment.

The entire church turned around to look at me. Yet another wedding ruined.


WARBLE

[Eyehavenofilter]

The damn bird kept up the sound, I thought that a warble was supposed to be comforting, but all it did was make me want to grab a cross bow and start practicing in earnest!
Did we ALL forget about the bird flu so quickly?


Onomatopoeia

[Hayley]

Onomatopoeia often described a bird's warble as something along the lines of 'tweet tweet'. The sound I was hearing, whatever it was, was not 'tweet tweet'. In fact, it sounded remarkably like the sound of a person being strangled while breathing in helium.

Palpable

[Eyehavenofilter]

Ok I'll try and tie a few together......my TOAST at the wedding was not even PALPABLE, since it only involved wine with barely a little sparkle, and the WARBLE of the wedding singer repeating the "Nana Heyhey" song was like a torturous ONOMOTPOEIA rattling around in my brain. Leaving me feeling incredibly DISCOMBOBULATED ( phew! )

sang froid

[Melanie]

He moved away from the warm corpse, not even bothering to look once more at the body that had been a living, breathing, person a few minutes earlier. His sang-froid was disturbing.

unicorn :)

[Emily V, Head Mod]

Squinting at the bright light Avery caught sight of movement near the trees. She moved closer and saw it was only a horse. No horse's didn't have a horn. She had just seen a real live unicorn. Wow no one was ever going to believe this. She took out her camera but it was already gone.

JUSTIN BIEBER (HAHA)

[Melanie]

Michael coughed nervously, clearing his throat for the fifteenth time in about thirty seconds. This was his acceptance speech for the Justin Bieber fan club presidency, he had nothing to worry about did he? After all, it was just a room full of beliebers; super fans, just like himself.

CRINGE

[Julie]

She cringed at the sight of the blood spurting from the now gaping wound in his side.

[Julie]

I forgot the random word.

EDUCATE

[Melanie]

I was sick and tired of trying to educate these newbie vampires - they were all teeth and no class! I'd have staked them myself if there had been some mdf close-by; but the mahogany furniture was too precious to waste on them.

[Melanie]

Oops! No word...

MISTAKE

[Emily V, Head Mod]

No matter how many times I told them it was a mistake they wouldnt let it go. They were going to hold this over me forever. I really hate autocorrect. (lol)

Distinguish

[Julie]

She couldn't distinguish between the two vials so she went with her gut and drank one down. Luckily it was the right one.

SHEET

[Becky]

I looked up from the musty books I had been studying so intently taking it all in. Then a remarkable shining object caught my attention. Could it truely be what I had been searching for all these years?

urrmmmm..... GREMLIN!

[Tony]

Gremlin! Sure, that's what we call't 'em in World War Two, little t'ings that hang on da engines, get in the works. Eng'neers couldn't do dam t'ing with 'em once they wuz in dere.

TSUNAMI

[Emily V, Head Mod]

It's poring down outside, it's like a tsunami except the water comes from the sky!

England

[Melanie]

I looked at the faded map where the knife had sliced through the thin, dirty paper. It had cut the word England in two.

LAMPSHADE

[Emily V, Head Mod]

I stared at the brown bag covering the energy saving light bulb. That was supposed to be a lampshade? They really were going green.

Ozone Layer

[Julie]

She emerged from the plane, her eyes puffy and swollen from the jet lag, thinking to herself, I can't believe I'm finally in England.

Capable