Word Wrangling and Tattoos

Last week I got myself three new tattoos, taking my total up to five. Of course they are all movie related. I'll let you work out what the movies are.

I'm going for a full patchwork sleeve eventually, building it up one (or three) tattoos at a time.

Word Wrangling

There are days when a sentence never looks correct, when there is simply something off about it, but what that ‘offness’ is, who knows? I would not describe myself as a technical prose writer. When I am writing a novel I am not worrying about prepositions and subjunctive verb forms, and please don’t ask me to tell you the difference between a subordinate clause and a subordinating conjunction.

I simply write, describing the action and the environment in which that action happens.

On Saturday I was leading my monthly adult creative writing workshop (started in 2016 and still going!) and used photographs as story starters. The idea was to write a story and then cut it down to around 250 words.

This got me thinking about language and sentences, and how many ways there might be to write a simple description.

This was my prompt:

And here was my first sentence followed by twenty variations.