One Minute – One Sentence

This exercise is about being a writer and supposedly writing something everyday – not something I’m particularly good at I have to admit.

Nonetheless I promised I’d do these exercises and blog them too, so lucky for me, since I’m really not in the mood today, the exercise I chose at random requested that I spend one minute writing one sentence.

The book gives a list of examples for what that sentence could be about just to help get the brain going.

Obviously, for me this really should be sentences of dialogue, so I thought I’d have a go at writing a few odd lines based on the examples given and see what came out.

Here’s the result:

Write a single line of dialogue…

about an animal:
I buried the cat it in the garden before dad got home, but when I told him he said I had to dig it up again, cause he wanted to cremate it.

about an inanimate object:
Just sit in the bastard deck chair and shut the fuck up, all right?

how you’re feeling right now:
If I tell you, will you let me go?

that’s dull:
What you want?

about sex:
She didn’t want to.

beginning with a name:
George ate it, I saw him.

about the weather:
Well if it was hot and sunny and you was starkers on the beach getting a tan, you’d still be moaning about something or other.

that’s silly:
She said stick it in the tumble dryer, so I did, and it just like all fell apart.

about a place:
Didn’t think you’d want to look at it, so I left it in Swanage.

about a habit:
Well, you will keep biting your nails, love.

about yourself:
I’ve got a rash all over.

beginning with an expletive:
Fuck off out of here you little shit, and don’t for one minute think you’ll ever be coming back!

about water:
Third time this week he’s washed that bloody car of his.

about love:
You don’t know what it means, do you?

beginning with how:
How can you say that now?

about a season:
Then you’ll just have to wait till Spring.

about death:
Did he, when?

So much for one minute and one sentence! I certainly wasn’t expecting to do them all.

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From The Five-Minute Writer