Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:14:37 EDT From: The Home for Forgotten Words Subject: EXERCISE: Double Trouble! Comments: To: Flabby Fingers faust, a little exercise to go with the recent technical nuts-and-bolts discussion (no frankenstein, just frankly writing) 1. Take a parental unit and a generative unit (parent and child in the old cant, perhaps even father/mother and daughter/son). 2. The generative unit wishes to take the family demon out for a spin, participate in their first Saturnalia, feed the familiar living under graveyard, or some other initial experience with normal life. Your option as to the change in their life that they are attempting to lay claim upon. 3. The parental unit, being a parental unit, is concerned, fearful, trying to let the little slug drool on their own, and otherwise emotionally knotted about hanging the next generation out on a line. Again, your option as to their exact reaction(s) to this attempted departure from the fold (manacles and such are strictly optional:-) 4. Got the picture? Good! Now write the diabolic dialogue! practice what you impeach? well, let the good words roll and we'll see how it works, okay? dualist, for those who prefer door number two, here's another seed sentence to evolve around: I was awakened by a wet drip on my forehead. Take that sentence, let it percolate, feel the roots penetrate your innermost being, grope into the sunshine with those first leaves, wash your face, and... WRITE!!! (that's TWO exercises, although there are those who may mingle the two and let them twist and turn as one...hook, line, and sinker, perhaps?) tink