To occupy you while I'm away...
Take a book, any book - write down the first 10 nouns that appear in the book, and the last 10 adjectives.
Match em up at random - see if you can make an interesting poem, or if any other ideas strike you from the unusual combinations.
Here's what happened this morning when I tried this out with "My name is Red"
I call it
"My meaningless poem inspired by nouns and adjectives from My name is Red"
He had a worse heart,
beating black with a convincing midriff,
gave him a harder edge.
I admired,
his prettier breath, absent from the elegant body,
the sand rough bottom of the absentminded corpse.
A delightful wretch, deep in the night -
a bleary eared, smeared murderer.
Feel free to post up the results in the comment box - and remember this can be repeated as often as you like with lots of different books - so should keep ye entertained for awhile...
5 comments:
Goodness that sounded good! Finally we know how Heaney does it...
But will it win the Hennessy?
Thanks - the bleary eared was my own - wonder should I admit to that, ye have to do it now!
Drama Queen - why so cruel!? So very cruel - you know the closest I'll ever get to a Hennessey is a double Black Bush...
Snappy title, I likes it. Remind me, what's an adjective again? And a noun?
TFE - Not sure, but I heard somewhere that if you have exactly 327 of each in any given short story - it would be guaranteed publication in the stinging fly.
I plan to buy the next issue and check for myself - will report back here then...
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