Go Wilding with Words

Words tug like magnets. They greet from signage, menus, and roar from upside down. They tantalize by association with scents, sounds, and tastes.

Arrest Rust!  Can't keep up with rust so dust it.  There's a music group from the eighties - Rust Never Sleeps. Extend it to Rust Never Rests. Rust has power.

                                                            Jump your wires to possible.

Set up for a Word Playground

Choose a word that has more than one meaning. Also, it must bring in sound, scent, texture and taste.

Here's a chart of early connections.

KNOT could exist in a tree, a muscle, or a ship's speed. Tie a knot to make it SECURE.
Then it could unravel and smell like creosote used to protect it.   Imagine the sound of a knot rubbing against a ship's sails.

A freewrite from the scent to the ship might develop into a story or poem.  Add a wild notion or two


LIGHT also provides delight in play. She lights fires beyond the radiance of a son. Candles sputter as a scent wafts throughout the attic. ENLIGHTEN takes one to another level. He does not want to feel left in the dark. Drip. Drip. Drip.  Is that the candle or. . . a nuisance in the night?

Writing to communicate an idea requires word choices. If we play with words on a daily basis, they will travel our synapses and appear in a variety of wonders during the writing of a story or poem.

Start with ball and think bawl also.  Then search the dictionary for less familiar words to play with.

Go word wilding.