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Date:         Sun, 13 Nov 1994 09:00:05 EST
Reply-To:     WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Sender:       WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
From:         Rubber Chicken Soup! <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      EXERCISE: Shut Up and Dance!

Since I'm swamped (yes, up to our ar..mpits in allegories, crocodiles
knibbling at the vitals, bloodsucking leeches spitting, airborne
insectoids biting and gagging--we are finding a place to LIVE!) and
Becca was good enough to post this, let me just pick it up and run it
around the player again...

<scratch..scratch..scratch..oh, 45 rpm?..rrrrrrr!>

1.  pick a phrase.  try one of these if the mind is blanker than normal:

    shut up and dance
    sometimes endings are opportunities
    and with that, it was final
    I could only stare

2.  Set a time (20 minutes, 45 minuts, etc.)

3.  write around that phrase.

4.  GO!

thanks, Becca <Reed_Becca/furman@FURMAN.EDU>!

[and they're off...the starting blocks just fell away, the blinders
are flapping around their necks, and the silly kangaroos are bounding
every which way.  Guess that's why they're called BOUNDERS, eh?]

tink