So, I’ve come to #20 on my list of randomly generated words which I’ve challenged myself to write about. This means I have to create another list – which I did with an unfortunate lack of success. My challenge was to write twenty pieces, one for each word and to use the word without changing it – its tense, the part of speech, the spelling, anything at all. So, approaching the end of my challenge I’ve tried to set another, but I think I’m on a different site because from the twenty new words,eight are adjectives, seven are verbs/nouns, two are nouns, one is meaningless but possibly an adjective. It is so unusual I had to look it up and apparently it has no meaning so the word generator produced a combination of letters which can be pronounced but means absolutely nothing. OK… so that would indeed be a challenge. Now I’ve numbered them and I see I’ve only been given nineteen, not twenty – I went back to check that I hadn’t copied the list incorrectly, and no, I haven’t.
Here are the original nineteen words:
- 1 straight
2 view
3 welcome
4 slip
5 careless
6 scatinternal
7 tasteless
8 ruddy
9 fanatical
10 bury
11 experience
12 elderly
13 need
14 freeze
15 succeed
16 venomous
17 railway
18 cuddly
19 rock
I went on a different word generator and here is my second list – all nouns:
- 1. heart
2 independence
3 drawing
4 temperature
5 revolution
6 climate
7 stranger
8 cousin
9 property
10 nation
11 thought
12 community
13 truth
14 patience
15 satisfaction
16 management
17 way
18 art
19 engineering
20 computer
So what to do? A challenge is a challenge so I think I am going to have to accept both lists and rise to them both, and decide what to do about the missing twentieth word in the first list – perhaps that could be a challenge in itself! The missing word!
You might recognise my featured image – it is the one and only Phil Harding, the well known archaeologist who I had the good fortune to meet and “work” with on a dig around the ruined church of St Nicholas on Uphill hill in our village of Uphill. He was facing a challenge, and had to do some digging – and with this double challenge, I’m going to really have to dig into my creativity!!
Lois Elsden 