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Murdering My Creative Writing Muse with Seven Random Words from Dictionary

Posted by: Unpublished Guy on 2/1/2010


In court I swear I still like a little avocado polymer
to bulge and shrink the direction

I happened across a writer's blog that should be reported for muse abuse. Apparently, based on a friend's advice, she will poke at it with a creative writing prompt based on seven random dictionary words. After it gets all riled up with the short story that results from this prompt, she drags it out of a corner, where it was nice and comfortable and not bothering anyone, and throws it in the washing machine. That's right, the washing machine—a hot wash, no less.

Well, kudos for her. What good is a lousy muse anyways. Mine abandoned me quite a while ago, so I am going to go ahead and give it a good random-seven-words bludgeoning and teach it to atrophy while I've been busy writing marketing copy for an enterprise software brochure.

Here it goes, seven random words:

  • litro
  • seguir
  • direccion
  • tribunal
  • abultar
  • integral
  • encogimiento

As it turns out, I don't have an English dictionary from which I can randomly pluck words, and I can't really randomly pick words from an online dictionary. I did, however, find a Spanish dictionary (not mine). Well, my muse is really going to take a beating, now, because I don't know any Spanish. What kind of story am I going to write in a language I don't know. I suppose I can randomly write the whole story. Here's the opening sentence:

"Ante el tribunal me swear me sigue como un perrito de Litro de aguacate al el abultar e encogimiento direccion"

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    • Feb 22 2010, 8:17 PM Holly Jahangiri
    • Your Muse is clearly feeling passive-aggressive (what self-respecting Muse wouldn't, when forced to regurgitate Marketing copy for an enterprise software brochure?) - it's throwing things (like Spanish dictionaries) at you, hoping you'll notice and stop neglecting it or feeding it menudo. If you thought throwing it in the washer was a bad move, you really ought to read "Eradicating Edna," my unfinished NaNoNovel over on Scribd. Now THAT's Muse abuse!

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