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writercisesOriginal posting April 20, 2017
Oh, well. If you ramble over to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and set it up to toss you 6 random quotes, you might end up with a list as follows. Then if you roll your die (or pick a number from one to six? Come on, come all, just pick one!), you might choose:
1. Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. Voltaire
2. Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. Lane Olinghouse
3. Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. Miguel de Cervantes
4. The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. Thomas H. Huxley
5. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot
6. We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it. Dave Kellett
So, there you go! You have picked one of these little quotations? Now, can you turn it into a story? Add some characters, a little scenery, a complication, try fail cycle, and all that jazz, and then…
WRITE!
tink
Oh, well. If you ramble over to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and set it up to toss you 6 random quotes, you might end up with a list as follows. Then if you roll your die (or pick a number from one to six? Come on, come all, just pick one!), you might choose:
1. Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. Voltaire
2. Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. Lane Olinghouse
3. Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. Miguel de Cervantes
4. The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. Thomas H. Huxley
5. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot
6. We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it. Dave Kellett
So, there you go! You have picked one of these little quotations? Now, can you turn it into a story? Add some characters, a little scenery, a complication, try fail cycle, and all that jazz, and then…
WRITE!
tink