Pick a word and cluster it...
Whisper
Flag
Patch
Leap
Candle
Slide
Cup
Sing
Brush
Float
So... my 2nd assignment (after a bit of reading) is to write a story derived from at least one of those words in that list above... I can use up to five in the story which cannot exceed 1000 characters. You think it should be easy, right?
Go ahead... try it yourself... oh, what's clustering?
* Take one of those words above and write it down on a piece of paper. Now, without stopping to think, write out other words that come to mind when you think of that word around that word and then connect them to the original word by lines or arrows. If a secondary word immediately suggests another, scribble that word down and see where it leads you. Whenever you find yourself pausing for more than a second or two, return to your original word.
After a couple of minutes, stop and study your cluster. Is there a story idea there? or a memory that might suggest one?
if you don't see anything that sparks your imagination, choose another word from the list and begin another cluster. *
What were your results?
***** The information between the asterisks was taken directly from my lesson 2 in my notebook for The Institute of Children's Literature *****
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