EXERCISE: Turn Around, I'll Be There?

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original posting: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 20:44:00 -0400

Okay, quick and more than likely a bit odd...

Pick a noun (you know, the concrete things.  Although for this occasion, a bit of abstraction may be useful.  So pick something like love, life, one of those big thoughts.  Got it?)

Pick a verb (action!  What the nouns do, when they get together in the jungle of language?  Anyway, a verb.  Crumbles, grows, something that the noun might be doing...here, a bit of concreteness is good.)

Now, toss your noun and your verb into the following sentence:

Music is the spindle around which <insert your noun here> <insert your verb here>.

So, for example, you might construct the sentence:

Music is the spindle around which love crumbles.

Take that sentence, and add more.  You may want to talk about the various kinds of music, and howl about the ways that your noun achieves your verbosity when rotating about the notes and bars of musical inspiration.  Or perhaps you would simply like to wander down into a specific scene and tale expanding on the thought of music, your noun, and your verb.

In any case, write.