Writing Exerciser - September 22, 2014

As an in-class writing exercise, we were asked to write down 3 words on to a piece of paper, then hand it to the person next to us.
The words were to be as follows:
                              A verb ending in "ing"  
                              A body part
                              An object.

We were then asked to put the words, donated by our neighbour, into a very specific sentence:
After a long day of   (__verb__), he/she discovered that his/her  (__body part__) had grown a (__object__).

The next instruction was simply to write. To take that very bizarre and crazy sentence and use it as the beginning of whatever we wanted to write.

Here's mine:

After a long day of dancing, she discovered that her ear had grown a lamp. Well, not a lamp exactly, but a lamp-shaped growth. It didn't light up, well, not at first. You see, she was dancing for hours on end at the year end Rave by the power plant, and what she and the other guests didn't know, was that there had been a meltdown only hours earlier.
Many of the dancers developed odd shaped growths, but hers was particularly unique. Other growths were  relatively normal, mole-like growths; some with hair, others with mottled skin, but hers, hers was different... it was lamp shaped.
Later on, hours later, sometime near midnight, she discovered that it did, indeed, light up. But only when she had a particularly smashing idea. 
Oddly enough, sometime, when the idea was exceptionally smashing, there could also be heard a distinctive little "ding".


The idea behind the exercise was to get everyone writing, and it work. Everyone in the class wrote crazy funny stuff. It served to free our minds and work our creative writing muscles. It's not meant to produce any great works of literary art, and it's not meant to be perfect, just a way to get in the mood, the zone, the habit of writing.

To that end, we have been challenged to write every day. To keep track, I intend to post my daily writing blurb here, on this very blog. I'll try to see what other writing prompts I can find, and post them here if I use them.

If you're so inclined, feel free to comment, or try the exercises yourself.

Please, only positive and constructive comments. The idea is to be encouraged to write, not ridiculed for creativity.