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Article #51Re: "Three Word Game" and "In The Style Of ..."
From: Terson - Sod Lord
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:46
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:46
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In article <1992Sep11.194731.12553@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> andy@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (andy.russo) writes: :) :) I was hoping that with the start of the school year someone :) would reactivate these weekly writing exercises. Were they just too much :) work, or did some net.authority crack down on them? :) :) The three-word game was to write a short-short story containing :) three words that the person running the game (Sho) picked at random. :) "In the style of" involved writing about a topic that the person :) running the game posted, in the style of any author you chose (e.g. :) Raymond Chandler buys some eggs at the corner store, or Socrates goes :) to the barber, or Millie The White House Dog explains C coding). :) :) Thanks, :) Andy Russo I second the motion for these weekly writing exercises to be continued! If the exercises were too much work for the original runners, I would volunteer some of my time towards getting them running again. Thanks, J. Fritz Barnes
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Newsgroups: alt.prose.d Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!wsu-cs!vela!mars.acs.oakland.edu!jcbarnes From: jcbarnes@mars.acs.oakland.edu (Terson - Sod Lord) Subject: Re: "Three Word Game" and "In The Style Of ..." Message-ID: <1992Sep12.194634.7613@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Keywords: demised? exercises Sender: news@vela.acs.oakland.edu (USENET News System) Organization: FryTools International References: <1992Sep11.194731.12553@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> Distribution: na Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:46:34 GMT Lines: 24