Do you play these sort of games - Writers Forum

Olly Buckle · 09-21-2007, 06:56 PM

I realised that the word paper goes with a lot of other words e.g. hat, flower, exercise, bag, back, etc. then I started putting a word or phrase which went with the next word, e.g. paper chain mail man, I wrote out two or three pages of these and printed out on the backs of estate agents advertising I keep for such purposes, from it I extracted.

Paper boy scout
Paper boy soldier
Paper tiger rider
Paper moonlight holder

Paper back up
Paper back down
Paper down town
Paper mill run round

Which sounds sort of Cat Stevens like to me

Also "paper bag lady" which I love but haven't used yet, is she a low caste bag lady or greener?

A similar game played with run got me

It runs through my mind as I run out the door this is a re-run I've been here before.
Amongst other things.
Am I the only weirdo of this type?

Ilasir Maroa · 09-21-2007, 08:04 PM

no, I've done tht on occasion, and there's a similar excercise for creativity and connections in psychology. It can be a nice way to generate really interesting images, but I don't use it much because of all the dross you get.

mammamaia · 09-21-2007, 10:24 PM

what the heck is a moonlight holder'???

Olly Buckle · 09-22-2007, 04:40 AM

No idea mammamaia, I got there by paper- moon, moon- light, light-holder. I suppose it should be light-up or light-shade but it wasn't, don't know it sounded right, like brillig or slivey toves gyring and gimbling.

WriterX · 09-22-2007, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by mammamaia

what the heck is a moonlight holder'???

As any artist would say... use your imagination.

I did not try this yet, though I think I just got motivated into doing so.

mammamaia · 09-22-2007, 07:55 PM

sorry, but 'lightholder' doesn't say anything to me, either... well, maybe 'the statue of liberty'!

Olly Buckle · 09-23-2007, 04:54 AM

Downscale that, I was thinking of those things in catalogues that they put night-lights in to create an "ambient atmosphere".

The Backward OX · 09-23-2007, 05:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

A similar game played with run got me

It runs through my mind as I run out the door this is a re-run I've been here before.
Amongst other things.
Am I the only weirdo of this type?

No, we're all mad in our own special ways.
What follows isn't mine - I don't know who wrote it - but this thread seems as good a home as anywhere for it:

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now my time is UP, so.............

Time to shut UP.....!

Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning
& the last thing you do at night?

U P

mammamaia · 09-23-2007, 07:01 PM

up yours, box! [j/k]

The Backward OX · 09-23-2007, 07:16 PM

There's no need to get uptight (j/k2)