Just Another Word in the Paragraph- a writing exercise
This is you. You’re just just another word in the paragraph.That’s right, this exercise is to personify a word. To do that, you must first envision the world of words on a personal level. What do they do when they get off work? When the book is shelved and no one will be reading it for awhile and the paragraphs organize a mixer for the shyer words, how would they fit in together? Do the adjectives stand around and gossip? Do prepositions have to sit at the kiddie table? Do the words have any concept of the greater piece, the world beyond their paragraph? Into other chapters, other books?
Pick a book, pick a paragraph, look at the individual words, their other meanings, their root-words, suffixes, connotations. Write a poem in which, for some reason the words are interacting with the other words in the paragraph. Pick one word to narrate, whether its a cool verb or an envious article, and take us from the beginning of the interaction to the end with that particular word’s rose-colored glasses.