Best Creative Writing Exercises, Exercise 2

Dictionary

Open the dictionary to a random page. Find a word that you do not know how to define. Write an imaginary definition for it. Repeat.

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opuntia: The glittering moment a thought you have been considering suddenly turns in your mind to a cohesive idea and the world blanks out for a second and yet brightens at the same time.

divagate: An entry point into a new area or grounds that not only has a gate dividing the spaces, but the material on the ground changes as well, i.e. grass changes to wood.