WRITING EXERCISE #7

My 1FS: "Hello...HELLO! HEYYYY DID YOU FALL ASLEEP ON ME?" I heard this voice yelling at me in my right ear; I rubbed my eyes and slowly turned to look in the direction of the voice and it's the phone receiver next to me.

PART I. BEGINNINGS
Chapter 7) WHAT WORD COMES NEXT?
Some narratives are driven by plot, by the idea of what happens next. We visualize a character, a scene, and ask ourselves what happens next. Other narratives are driven by language, bythe writer's search for the next word, the next phrase, often without conscious attention to narrative logic. This sort of writing is analogous to a sculptor following the grain of wood with her chisel, seeking what it wants to say, and trusting that something recognizable and perhaps interesting will emerge. Instead of asking ourselves what happens next, a writer using this method will ask what word comes next. Instead of choosing words to describe something already present in the mind, the writer will let the grain of the language move the narrative along.

EXERCISE: Write the first sentence of a narrative. Any sentence will do. Then take two or three words from that first sentence and use them again in the second sentence. Take two or three words from those first two sentences and use them in the third sentence. Go on until the story begins to acquire a logic of its own.
OBJECTIVE: To learn to be surprised by what a story has to say, instead of deciding in advance what it must say. To get in touch with that part of ourselves that isn't always immediately available to the conscious mind. Focusing on technique, on a trick, will often allow us to write things we wouldn't otherwise write, things that frighten or disturb us.

MY EXERCISE: (I'm getting super sleepy, will have to come back to this exercise)
First Sentence


Second Sentence


Third Sentence


Fourth Sentence