Velvet Verbosity and 100 Words
Hello everyone! I feel like it’s been a while for some reason. Perhaps I am finally actually going crazy? Perhaps. This week has been busy enough for it.
A friend in one of the writing groups I’m in sent me a link for a fun writing exercise called 100 Words. I decided to check out the lovely Velvet Verbosity site. I like it a lot and am in the mood for some fun writing exercises, so here is my contribution to the current challenge:
Eden
Eden. The mythical, biblical land of absolute perfection and paradise. Thinking of Eden made John think of great expanses of very green grass with beautiful trees in sight in every direction. Some bore the purest beautiful fruit you could ever imagine.
Eden meant perfection. Love. Serenity.
That is, the biblical Eden.
The Eden of his reality was anything but serene. He tossed another one of the pictures featuring her and him on the fire and took a cold pleasure in watching it slowly curl up before turning into ashes.
Maybe after the betrayal of Adam and Eve, God burned Eden.
Ah, I enjoyed that. Sometimes I miss doing the exercises and other writing related activities that I did much more of while I…wasn’t working. Ha.
If you take part in this exercise, don’t forget to leave me a link so I can take a peek and a link at VV as well.
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May 7th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Hey! Thanks for taking the 100 Word Challenge. I’m always excited to meet new writers.
Ah Eden, we’re always trying to get back to that mythical place, aren’t we?
Happy Anniversary!
May 8th, 2008 at 12:37 am
It is amazing what you can fit into 100 words, when you learn, isn’t it? I know what you mean; writing exercises help sharpen your writing skills. If I can’t find enough otherwise, I just make up my own. I try to write as much as I can, on the theory that it won’t hurt, and may improve my writing. I’ll have to check out Velvet Verbosity.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:42 am
VV - My pleasure. It was a lot of fun.
Thank you.
Wandering Author - I have always admired good short stories writers for the same reason - the ability to fit so much into fewer words.
I hope you take part in Velvet Verbosity and leave a link here when you do.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Glad you decided to join in
I love what you did. I need to get into a better mindset to write mine yet this week….drinking barium solutions and starving before my CT scan this morning is not working for me. Maybe later today or tomorrow I will be more in tune with my Eden.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I’ll try next week, if I remember… ;-/ It is already Thursday night, and I wasted most of my day trying to figure out what to do about a new type of scam e-mail. You know how they tell you to be wary of messages from people you don’t know? Well, now, they can hack your account, read your address book - and the scam seems to come from someone you do know. Fortunately, they still think they need a guy with bad English to write the message.
Otherwise, it would have been convincing enough I wouldn’t have checked the headers and traced the originating IP address to Mauritius… Sorry to run on, it has just been one of those wearying, wasted days…
Anyway, I’ll try to come back next week and put a link to my entry if I can manage to remember to do it.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Penelope - There are plenty of times when it’s understandable that a writer can’t get into the right mindset, and you’re going through one of those times! Wishing you all the best.
Wandering Author - I have a terrible memory for these things as well, so maybe we both need to start making to-do lists?
I hate spam as well. I don’t even do forwards because of the nasty little viruses that can invade via email from your friends’ accounts (if they have been invaded).