So, I was sitting here on a rainy Saturday cleaning up some tasks before revising a synopsis I’ve written. A synopsis made up of words. 
Words?
Hmmmmm…..
So I latched onto my trusty Google (I do NOT like their new process for searching.) and looked up word games. Word association! What a fun challenge for our Lair, both writers AND readers!!!
So we’re going to do a little experiment. I’m going to start by posting the first word. The winner of the GR will take that word, put it in a sentence then post the next word. Yes, ya’ll will have to find the last comment to get your word and …there will be some overlap but how fun to see how different people think!!!
(I was going to do ink blots…put that scared me :-0 )
The poster with the most original sentence wins a ten dollar gift card from Borders. So gang…let’s go. The first word is BALLOON….
Words?
Hmmmmm…..
So I latched onto my trusty Google (I do NOT like their new process for searching.) and looked up word games. Word association! What a fun challenge for our Lair, both writers AND readers!!!
So we’re going to do a little experiment. I’m going to start by posting the first word. The winner of the GR will take that word, put it in a sentence then post the next word. Yes, ya’ll will have to find the last comment to get your word and …there will be some overlap but how fun to see how different people think!!!
(I was going to do ink blots…put that scared me :-0 )
The poster with the most original sentence wins a ten dollar gift card from Borders. So gang…let’s go. The first word is BALLOON….
I hope he is mine.
ReplyDeleteI was walking along the bay when I looked up and saw a balloon flying overhead with a chicken attached to the cord.
ReplyDeleteNext word COLANDER
Linda, congrats on the rooster! I think he needs a day off. Nancy had him working really hard! And then Nat's twins tormented him for a whole day! Poor bird is almost wondering whether a life of virtue is better than his current nefariousness! Nefariety?
ReplyDeleteOK, JT, have I got the rules right? I need to make up a sentence with Colander in it? Oh, well, here goes...
ReplyDeleteThe chicken was using a colander as a safety helmet - silly bird, it's full of holes!
Next word: Ballerina
The safety helmet that the ballerina had to use as part of her costume for her upcoming performance did not fill her with delight.
ReplyDeleteNext word: UMBRELLA
Linda, have fun with the rooster. Do not let him take advantage of you and run amuck.
ReplyDeleteBut the ballerina borrowed an umbrella and the wind blew her up to the chicken flying overhead with the ballon.
ReplyDeleteNext word: Biscuit
(still thinking about Tim Tams)
*picturing a helmet wearing ballerina carrying an umbrella floating in the sky next to a flying chicken attached to a balloon* ... oh if only I could draw but the best I can do are stick figures.
ReplyDeleteWhen the chicken tried to peck at the ballerina's umbrella, she threatened to serve him up with biscuits.
ReplyDeleteFun game, Joanie!
Next Word: Submarine
Well done Linda have fun with him
ReplyDeleteJoanie this is going to be lots of fun
So the chicken and the ballerina with the umbrella and the colander decided to look for biscuits in the water and found a submarine to play on
Next word egg
Have Fun
Helen
congrats Linda
ReplyDeletethe submarine was so hot as it was the middle of the day and the sun was shining down they were able to fry eggs on the top that they found in the tower
Next word Mermaid
Milly the Mermaid was not happy since she had plenty of other things to do besides looking for her runaway dolphin.
ReplyDeleteNext word Fairy
Hey, I'm having fun with this! Great game, JT!
ReplyDeleteHey Linda!!! Congrats on getting the chook...but then...it appears he made a quick escape with a balloon LOL
ReplyDeleteHmnmm....Anna...how did it get filled with holes? And...silly rooster...doesn't he know you use colanders to drain noodles...that you serve with CHICKEN??!!
ReplyDeleteWow Daz, having just attended the ballet Sat. night and the way the ballerinas "tippy toed" I'd think the colander costume difficult to hold onto. LEAP, LEAP, CLUNK
ReplyDeleteNow Mary Poppins is a ballerina? LOL Good job Kim!
ReplyDeleteAhhhh...Anna S. A southern cooking ballerina!
ReplyDeleteIt's breakfast time over here...I'm now craving hot, buttered biscuits!
Hmmm...maybe the GR and Madame Dances with Colander could float by and bring me some?
Wonder what the defense department will say when they find fried egg on their submarines?
ReplyDeleteAwww...poor Milly the Mermaid.....I guess dolphins can be as capricious as kittys....who are currently shreading my newspaper
ReplyDeleteLittle did Milly know that her dolphin had been taken to the Fairy Humane Society off the coast of Ireland.
ReplyDeleteNext word: Pint
Good morning, Joanie! What a great idea! But for me--as my brain is utterly fried what with the beginning of the school year & proposals & whatnot due (something you're quite familiar with, I'm glad to see)--I won't impose my version of creativity on anybody today.
ReplyDelete:-)
But I did want to say YAY YOU for putting together your irish proposal! I love that story & am looking forward to it getting into submission!
Waving excitedly to my duckling, Susan!!!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for YOUR next book so....I'll wait patiently outside the cave door for you...
Milly flew to Ireland immediately, only to discover that the entire staff of the Fairy Humane Society was off having a PINT or five at the local pub.
ReplyDeleteNext word: DIRT (that's what's outside my window) :)
Linda, congrats on the bird!
ReplyDeleteFedora chose "dirt," so . . .
Ermingarde the dragon digs into the DIRT to find a cool spot in the summer.
Next word: dragon
Fun game, JT!
I popped in to tell Anna Campbell I'm enjoying Captive of Sin (delightfully autographed in gold at RomCon). And now I see I'm supposed to make up a sentence using Dirt.
ReplyDeleteFrom my WIP - Mrs. Fitzsimmons was the town champion when it came to dishing dirt.
And do I get to choose the next word? If so, I choose Dictionary.Com's word of the day:
TITTLE
It was clear that Sir George didn't know TITTLE about DRAGONS, being he passed by three of them without recognizing them for what they were.
ReplyDeleteNext word PERAMBULATE
Since Sir George didn't know TITLLE about DRAGONS, the dragons he passed by decided to PERAMBULATE to a place where they would be appreciated.
ReplyDeletenext word Homogeneous
With dolphins and dragons and faries and mermaids and ballerinas, the world of Fantasie was becoming quite homogenous, but even so none of its inhabitants were prepared for the appearance of Walter, the Were-Duck.
ReplyDeleteNext word:BODACIOUS
Oh, I was too slow!
ReplyDeleteI like yours better Janga.
Walter the were-duck had a bodacious beak.
Next word----feathers
ReplyDeleteBut Walter's bodacious beak was nothing compared to his golden feathers.
ReplyDeleteNext word: Serendipity
Really, TerriO? Serendipity?
ReplyDeleteHaving golden feathers kept the Chinese chef in the next building from cooking Walter, so his feathers were heavy, but true serendipity for him.
Next word: Precarious
But those heavy feathers put Walter in a precarious situation since the black market for heavy were-duck feathers had recently heated up.
ReplyDeleteNext word: laundryt
Oops, ignore that "t" on the end of "laundry".
ReplyDeleteIs it bad I haven't yet done the LAUNDRY from DragonCon?
ReplyDeletenext word: knight
Fun game Joanie!
ReplyDeleteAnd way to go on capturing the GR, Linda. I hope he isn't giving you too much trouble. Just guard the chocolate and liquor! ;-)
'Twas laundry day in the Lair and Sven ordered everyone to hang the wash outside to take advantage of the lovely sunny fall/spring day.
Next word is calorescence (I opened the dictionary and that was the first word I say)
AC
OOPS! Nancy and I were composing at the same time...
ReplyDeleteDoing the Knight's laundry involves Brass-o!
AC
Hey, Terry, cool on Captive of Sin! Thanks for letting me know!
ReplyDeleteSnort? Janga, a WERE-duck??? You gals quack me up!
Oooo I wanna play too.
ReplyDeleteFortunately for our ducky friend, dragon fire had hardened his feathers to armor but when he shifted to his human form a strange calorescence emanated from his skin.
Next word: Superfluous
Aloha! This morning I wake up to very funny sentences ... I haven't stopped laughing at the introduction of the submarines!
ReplyDeleteI power walk along the Pearl Harbor channel each morning, where the majestic subs come and go. Sometimes the sailors are "manning the rails" on the tiny crow's nest. I'll make sure they know to look out for balloon floating chickems, umbrella flying ballerinas, and possible egg bombs!
Hey Becca,
ReplyDeleteI'm not being superfluous when I say, "Way to use calorescence!" and work in the were-duck too!
I am in awe!
AC
P.S. the next word is PIQUANT
Walter the Were-Duck found himself smack in the middle of hunting season, but escaped the roasting pan due to his reputation for being piquant.
ReplyDeleteNext word: inconvenient
While Walter the Were-Duck found hunting season inconvenient, he took advantage of the situation by looking for his future mate.
ReplyDeleteNext word: HUBRIS
Cool, Joanie, I love word games!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Linda! Maybe the rooster can help with your sentence. On second thought, I'm not so sure he's good at cerebral games LOL.
Hilarious game, Joan! Oy vey on the big words.
My sentence: Hubris has been the fall of many an arrogant male (female) who thought he could go his own way without others' help.
My word is SLICK!
Guys who think they are SLICK are really just oily.
ReplyDeleteNext word: hyperspace
Nancy, oily guys should be blasted into hyperspace.
ReplyDeleteWORD: Quantum
Those arrogant, oily fellows should
ReplyDeletebe forced to consider a quantum leap
in personal knowledge!
Pat Cochran
Forgot my word: superlative.
ReplyDeletePat C.
And the superlative chicken rang along the beach chasing the waves
ReplyDeleteLonging
Have Fun
Helen
He looked out over the incoming tide and had the worst longing to see Milly the Mermaid again.
ReplyDeleteOh...word..
ReplyDeletecunning
The cunning chicken spotted Milly The mermaid and drooled
ReplyDeleteNew Word Desire
Have Fun
Helen
LOL, Walter the Were-Duck??? LOL
ReplyDeleteYa'll are doing amazing. I have these vivid pictures of Ducks and egg bombs and balloons over submarines...
Ah, Milly the love of his life, thought Walter. It would take great cunning to snatch her from the clutches of The Society for the Study of Amphibious Tittles....
Halcyon
Helen and I crossed internet paths, lol
ReplyDeleteBut the halcyon days of their love was over and all he had left was this pulsing desire...
ReplyDeleteThrob
And the start of a throbbing migraine but he was sure the were-duck, or solphin or ballerina, or chicken or Milly the Mermaid or the dragon would have a cure.
ReplyDeletenext word foil
that was "dolphin" lol
ReplyDeleteOf course who knew the "cure" would include a helmet made of tinfoil to keep out the alien voices?
ReplyDeleteNext word: petulant
The duck and the ballerina both became quite petulant when the wind picked up and they were blown off course and could no longer follow the submarine.
ReplyDeleteNext word Nefarious
But little did Walter and Milly know that the nefarious groper wanted a nefarious grope of a mermaid who had interesting tittles.
ReplyDeleteWord: Facetious
I say in all earnestness that none of this is the least bit facetious as I saw this entire adventure on HBO last night in a series called True Blood of Mad Men Who Are Closers of Weeds Named Dexter starring Richard Armitage as Walter the Were Duck and our own La Campbell as the ballerina of the colander helmet with Joanie as the submarine commander and her two kitten crew with their dragon chef Irmagard. The GR, of course, played himself.
ReplyDeleteNext word : Bathycolpian
And I thought putting facetious was hard to put in a sentence.
ReplyDeleteWe all know Milky the mermaid was showing off her bathycolpian figure to attract GR.
word: tasse
LOL Louisa...but man....can you imagine the litter boxes inside a sub?!!!
ReplyDeleteYa'll have come up with some fantastic words and unique sentences. Cricket, Grayson and I will have to mull them over. Watch over the next few days for the winner announcement!
Joanie's next word.... Nighty Night
"Nighty night," whispered the GR as he gently closed the cover of the latest creative efforts of the Banditas and buddies.
ReplyDeleteWow, Louisa, that's one bodacious sentence. And I don't even know what bathycolpian means!
ReplyDeleteHa ha! I just looked it up. Deep bosomed. I suppose our mermaid could be bosomed of the deep?