[I could have posted this tomorrow instead of two posts in a row but I was too excited! I'm going to leave this at the top of the blog for a few days. Check for new posts below.]
I want your brain. Your creativity. Your humour.
I want to give you a list of some of my favourite words and then challenge you to write a mini-story (that doesn't have to make sense) using these words, with a theme. I want you to do this for sheer fun and amusement. And I think some of you would.
But then, to make it even sweeter, I'll be giving away a prize at random to participants. No, this isn't going to become one of those giveaway blogs. This post didn't start with the idea of a giveaway. The giveaway was the afterthought. And you have to WORK for it, not just leave a comment or bring me blog traffic or something promotional. It's more like a little reward for being immensely awesome. OBVIOUSLY the real reward for being immensely awesome is your very awesomeness.
The prize will be four Dripstiks for your kids or your neices or nephews or just for yourself. They catch the drips from ice cream cones and popsicles. That's my Lulu using hers. They are one of my favourite mom inventions ever, from a [Mormon] mom of 5, Mecinna Price.
So, here's an example of how to do this story thing.
My friend John casually, randomly, spontaneously gave me a list of words one day that he likes:
stoic
melliflous
baroque
Rococo
flotilla
murky
testiCAles
mirage
flange
risqué
la mouche
And I got the idea in my head to write a kinda non-sensical piece/thing/blurb using those words. Voila:
"He was sat, stoic. His mouth wanted to scream, "Why can't there be more mellifluous baroque music in this world?" The onomatopeia in his head pleased him. He belonged with baroque, with Rococo, with the abundance of romance.
A flotilla of ships passed by in the murky water. It had not rained in weeks and weeds were washing up the shore. You'd have to have some big testiCAles to choose a life like that, he mused. He preferred the land.
His life was but a mirage. He was lost, like a broken flange on a lonely pipe in some risqué district of London.
A fly landed on his nose. "La mouche... nous somme même."
And then he died. He had a brain infection."
I'm inviting you to do something similar. And THEN, if you want, I'd love for you to send me a list of YOUR favourite words and we'll repeat this whole thing again, using YOUR words. You can attach it to your comment, under your story.
Keep in mind that if they are words that are all "banana" and "tree" and "life", then I'm not going to pick that list because it won't be funny. It's easy to write something using the word "banana". It's much harder to use the word "baroque". And the point is to sound silly. The more pretentious the words, especially, the more ridiculous the writing will sound. Keep in mind, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE SENSE, really.
So, for now, these are some of my favourite words. I just like the way they sound. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write something with as many pop culture references as possible and make it under 200 words. And, just to pet my ego, if you work in a Natashaism, I'll double your chance of winning the giveaway. (For inspiration, check out this AWESOME post from Mike, where I got the idea to have as many pop culture references as possible. Funny stuff.)
scintillating
bloke
stipulate
trollop
peckish
pants
twitterpated
greige (beige + grey)
caoutchouc (my favourite French word-- means "rubber")
Qatar
fauxhawk (fake mohawk, obviously)
nepotism
In the comments, GO!
