— Mark Paxson
Beginning today, I’m going to post a word. Each day for the next week, I’ll post another word. These words are selected more or less randomly.
Your job is to begin a story with today’s word used somewhere in the first few hundred words. And then use the word I post each of the next six days in the same fashion as you continue your story. It’s totally up to you how many words you write each day. It’s totally up to you what genre. Everything is up to you, except for you to use each day’s word in the next chunk of the story.
One final note … use the word I identify or any form of it. Also, once this is done, please share your work. Either on your blog and provide us with the link, or email us at writinghelp2021@gmail.com, and we’ll post your story here.
So … today’s word is … elimination.
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“How can you stroll in, take one loop around the place, peek into the pantry and claim that it was the scullery maid?” Dr. Hobson’s face had turned red with the effort of so many words strung together without a breath.
Turlock Rolms tsk’d back at the poor doctor. “Did you see the dust knocked off the mantel where cooks usually keep spices, salts, wormwood, and such?”
“No.”
“Did you see the hastily tossed stew remnants dripping down the wall below the only window exhausting the kitchen?”
“No.”
“Did you notice the boils on the maids inner arms?”
“No. No. And no, Rolms.” Hobson sat onto the velvet settee with a great gush of wind from beneath his hamster-sized mustache. “Do get on with it, Turlock.”
“Right. It’s quite simple my dear chap. Remove all the factors that do not contribute to the crime and, by the process of elimination, you have your culprit.”
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I hope you continue through the rest of the week.
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Interestingly, even though it’s not one of the “required” words, I also had a scullery maid in my story for this exercise, just because I like the phrase. 🙂
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