I was digging through some of my old files, and I came across one from when I took a creative writing course a while back. I wanted to share the first assignment with you because I think it really shows how far I've come in my writing abilities.
The point of the exercise was to select three numbers from a list (I chose 3, 8, and 3 - my favorite numbers). Each number represented a random word that you didn't discover until AFTER you had selected your numbers. Then - after you found out what your words were (I got lucky with my words - you'll see why), you had to write a short story using those words as key points/objects. The point of a free-writing exercise is to just write. You don't correct any mistakes - spelling errors, bad grammar, poor sentences -- nothing. You just write and see where your creativity takes you. This is what I came up with. (I also posted the comment people left about it, because I think they are really sweet.)
The point of the exercise was to select three numbers from a list (I chose 3, 8, and 3 - my favorite numbers). Each number represented a random word that you didn't discover until AFTER you had selected your numbers. Then - after you found out what your words were (I got lucky with my words - you'll see why), you had to write a short story using those words as key points/objects. The point of a free-writing exercise is to just write. You don't correct any mistakes - spelling errors, bad grammar, poor sentences -- nothing. You just write and see where your creativity takes you. This is what I came up with. (I also posted the comment people left about it, because I think they are really sweet.)
3-8-3
(A bride, a wedding ring, and a hotel room)
by:
Cortney
2/2/2010 1:13:12 PM
3-8-3
(A bride, a wedding ring, and a hotel room)
A
new bride sits in a hotel room waiting for her groom to return from the nearby
restaurant where he has gone to fetch something to eat. The woman is sitting on
the bed and admiring the view from the window. The sun reflecting off of a
nearby car as it drives by reminds her of her shiny diamond ring which now
encompasses her finger. She looks at her hand to examine the ring. It's
beautiful. She takes it off of her finger to examine it more thoroughly. She
holds it between her thumb and forefinger and gently rolls it around just
inches from her face – squinting one eye so as to see it better. She accidentally
squeezes her fingers too tightly together and the ring shoots out of her hand.
She scrambles to catch it, falling off of the bed and landing with her legs
over her head. She is still in her wedding dress which is now up around her
neck. She scrambles to get upright and smooth the dress back down into its
place and begins her search for her wedding ring. Oh no, she thinks as
she searches the nearby floor, unsuccessfully. Oh, shoot! She lifts up
the bed skirt and peers under the bed, with no success. She is frantic to find
the ring before her husband comes back and discovers she has lost it. While she
is crawling around on her hands and knees, her dress still around her waist
revealing the frilly slip underneath, her husband walks back into the room. He
asks her what she is doing. She stutters for a bit before letting out a sigh,
and finally admitting that she has dropped her ring. Her husband laughs at how
silly she appears and tells her he will help her find the ring, but that she
should get up and out of the expensive wedding dress first. She stands and he
helps her unhook the dress. As she is disrobing, her husband begins to chuckle
again. She asks what is so funny and he points at her chest. There, inside her
bra, lodged between her bosoms was her missing wedding ring, where it must have
been all along. She, too, chuckles, retrieves the ring and places it safely
back on her finger.
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Max
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Love your story ... I am still laughing. I
think the reason I am laughing is because misplacing the ring on her own body
is something that can really happen. I find myself laughing the most about
what is real.
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