Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Formal Creative Writing Practice

Each sentence is stand alone. Tried three variations of each form.
  • She was savagely swept up in a current and drowned in foam and fury.
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  • He was later raised by a fisherman who buried him by sweat and shovel.
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  • She soon rested by my side breathing in dreams and exhaling hushed secrets.
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  • He wore a tattered pinstripe jacket, and the church bells rang for the work shifts to begin.
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  • A hot breeze rolled over the hill, and the spring odors swelled with blood and rot.
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  • His words were discomforting white lies, but his casket had beautiful lining.
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  • I became aware of reality again in the middle of saying the creed, on account of not having a consciousness, since the death of Freud at least.
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  • The alms were given, since scarcity is scarce, to the blessed poor.
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  • The cassock was dark, black is its only color after all, whether in day or night.
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  • Our judgment came before the fire, and like the fire, it was kindled more by the burning pages.
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  •  The end started with the beginning, and as the beginning, it introduced the reader to the hero.
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  • His hating eyes began before my response, and like the response, it began building to a violent conclusion.
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  • Divinity School can be a faith community; they can have their own gods.
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  • Time is money, we're convinced we can own it.
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  • Appeal to authority is a fallacy, or so I'm told.
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  • Many things drive us to attempt to consume God's being, the most distasteful, that I've witnessed, are experiences.
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  • There are a few good ways to cook a fish, the best of which, in my opinion, is in a plate.
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  •  Of all the forms that charity takes, the only one that matters, contrary to the spirit of the times, is in the form of our souls.

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