Saturday, June 18, 2016, found a bunch of writers in the community room at the Freed-Montrose Neighborhood Public Library three hours of writing exercises. It's a laid back time of drawing words out of a cup/box/whatever and writing non-stop for a pre-determined length of time.
To break up the writing and give our hands a rest, we pause to play games of Exquisite Corpse, a parlor game of the surrealists of the early 20th Century. Better than she has to be, Margo Stutts Toombs made this video to explain how it is played. The game results in nonsensical and, occasionally, profound sentences, all by accident.
Without further ado, here (in addition to the title of this post) are a the results of our most recent Writing (Re)Treat:
A mangy grape walked a long van.
A photogenic marmalade slapped the rolling dragon.
A happy horse pinches the metallic dog.
A rotten warship crouches (an example of a intransitive verb, by the way) the petulant dishwater.
A beautiful robot peels the high tree.
A happy woman sneezes the lengthy whale.
The strange crocodile rung the boxy outlet.
An incredible cheetah drives freedom to wall. (I don't know what happened here.)
The sweaty road talking a perky dragon. (This is why we don't use -ing verbs [or gerund forms])
The angry lemur runs the greenish precipice.
The relevant boy ran a horny carton. (It's best not to think about some too much.)
The red Paris runs a stiff line. (Some sound like euphemisms.)
The lacy watermelon devours a violent light.
An elderly can treasures the melodic soup.
The funny turtle shouted a moist train.
The pink car leaves a running field.
The crooked penguin hassles the pink feather.
The dark poet brought the active balloon.
An electrifying record takes the swinging balloon. (Balloons are fun and popular.)
The precious monkey swallows the sloppy dress.
An arrogant skyscraper drove a smelly stallion.
The funny mermaid expects a bright riverboat.
An artistic debutante shuddered a happy gorilla. (Shuttered?)
A juicy beagle yells the lost drum.
An absolute salesclerk ripped a poetic mink.
A restful guy held the ugly ball.
The clunky puppy eulogizes the rosy cop.
A fretful scientist pranced an orange candlestick.
The shy queen rides an elusive lemur. (Lemurs, too, are fun and popular.)
The naughty boy ran a low volcano.
The lively graveyard gulped a screwed-up hula-dancer.
A puffy orchestra floods a football umbrella. (What kind of an umbrella? A football umbrella, of course.)
A hasty rabbit waters a gooey woman. (This one, Margo stood up to read.)
The plump goat plays a sneaky nurse.
A loose lizard pees the pithy zebra. (Worse than kidney stones, I hear.)
An orange onion sprang a boxy bucket.
A nerdy plumber conjures the operatic snake.
An amazing joke gently a loud chest. (Adverbs do not work in place of the verb.)
The delicious bastard reads the sparkling devil. (Mmmmm, that's good bastard.)
The fellow writer stepped an ugly crawfish. (Have you stepped the ugly crawfish? It's the latest craze down at the dance halls.)
That's a lot of exquisite corpses. It goes pretty quickly, though, and we still managed to write several pages of raw material (not all usable, admittedly, but still). Hope you enjoyed these flights of whimsy
