Find the verbs
People move forward in different ways. Some walk, others run, some stumble forward.
And when we hear something funny, we can react in different ways. Laugh, snort or giggle, for example.
We all need to get food in our bellies in order to survive. But how we do it differs. We can devour the food, mouth it, smack it, gobble it up, feast on it or simply eat it.
Choose a person, real or made up, and select the most suitable verbs to describe how that person walk, laugh and eat. Then write a text that contains these verbs.
Suggestions
Don't know what person to choose? Here are three suggestions.
You.
The person you want to be.
The person who appears in the character exercise.
The form is up to you
The text can be in any form you like. Prose, poetry, postcard, meeting protocol, checklist, chat, newspaper article or anything else.If you don't want to pick the form yourself, I suggest that you write a really short story.
3 minutes
I suggest that you spend 3 on this writing exericse.