{"id":22545,"date":"2014-02-27T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T02:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=22545"},"modified":"2014-02-28T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T14:07:23","slug":"writing-exercise-describe-one-things-ten-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/02\/27\/writing-exercise-describe-one-things-ten-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Exercise: Describe One Things Ten Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: Random Song Challenge<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

First up: an administrative detail. For those who took part in the Voicemails From The Future<\/strong><\/span><\/a> challenge — Reggie Lutz, you won a chronofact from the proceedings! Bounce me a message to terribleminds at gmail dot com. Yay!<\/p>\n

(Er, edit: I don’t need everyone to write me an email. Just Reggie, thanks!)<\/p>\n

Now: onto the challenge.<\/p>\n

This week — not a flash fiction challenge so much so much as an experimental\u00a0writing exercise<\/em>. I want to do these from time to time just to keep things fresh around here.<\/p>\n

So, here’s the drill —<\/p>\n

I want you to take\u00a0one thing<\/em> and describe it ten different ways<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That thing can be… anything. An object. A person. A sensation. A place. An experience.<\/p>\n

But I want you to focus on it and describe it multiple ways. Ten, as noted.<\/p>\n

Each no more than a sentence of description.<\/p>\n

(Feel free to choose a\u00a0real world thing<\/em>. Say, a lamp in your corner, or the flu you had last week.)<\/p>\n

Differ your approaches in how you describe this thing.<\/p>\n

Try pinballing from abstraction to factual — from metaphorical to forthright.<\/p>\n

The goal here is just to flex our descriptive muscles a bit.<\/p>\n

An example? After jogging the other day, I had a peculiar feeling in my face and I — as I am wont to do — went through the various ways I might describe this feeling. It was a hot pulsing. Like my heart was in my head. Like I was a goldfish inside an aquarium and some kid was tapping on the glass. Like both the basketball dribbling and the court on which it bounced. This is just a thing I do: I see a person or experience a sensation and I ask:\u00a0how would I describe that<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Try it out. Pick a thing. Ten different descriptions.<\/p>\n

Feel free to do this directly in the comments or at your blog (post a link).<\/p>\n

Got till March 7th, noon EST to jump on in.<\/p>\n

Go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: Random Song Challenge First up: an administrative detail. For those who took part in the Voicemails From The Future challenge — Reggie Lutz, you won a chronofact from the proceedings! Bounce me a message to terribleminds at gmail dot com. Yay! (Er, edit: I don’t need everyone to write me an email. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5RD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22545"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22552,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22545\/revisions\/22552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}