List Digest, Vol 44, Issue 4

[Regina Sewell]

Adam,

This one's wierd, but my writer friends and I have been laughing about 
it....   it's a writing exercise but you could make it into a verbal 
"game."

We call it "keyword slut" - based on the freelance writing assignments 
where you have to write an article fitting in one or several key words 
(say truffle and godiva or prostrate cancer amd hippopotomus) in the 
article so that it will be picked up by search engines.  The same could 
be done as a song.

cheers,
regina


> Dear Colleagues,
>    I'm working up a program on Imagination Development for the 
> conference, and it occurred to me to set up a webpage with ideas; and 
> further, to invite you to share ideas that come to you. I don't want 
> warm-ups that you've seen in books, but things that pop into your mind 
> that might be fun. Imagine that you will be giving a class of adults 
> (or maybe bright teens) on this theme, and you're just playing around 
> with what might be some fun exercises. If I use what you'll send, I'll 
> append your name.
>  Examples:
>       * Make up a funny word
>       * What might that word describe?
>       * Consider something that happens that there is no word in our 
> language to describe it?  What might that be?
>       * Do you have a doohickey or thingamabob around the house that, 
> if you didn't know what it was or did, it would be very hard to guess? 
> (There was actually a TV show some decades back that used these items 
> as a kind of quiz: Four experts would offer plausible descriptions of 
> the provenance---the function and history---of some item; one of them 
> was authentic. The contestants had to try to guess which of the four 
> was genuine.
>        * etc.
>
>     If you want to play with me, you're welcome.
>
> Adam Blatner, M.D.
>    website: www.blatner.com/adam/