Hello and happy Sunday, scribblers!!
Spring has sprung here and the garden beckons…so let’s make this one you can noodle over while you’re weeding the flowerbeds. (or raking the leaves, depending on your hemisphere)
First…the standard instructions/disclaimer:
Even if you don’t identify as a writer, I invite you to have a noodle in a notebook or on a scrap of paper…just to see what might happen.
If you absolutely have no interest - fair enough - you can toggle your preference in the manage subscriptions portion of your settings.
Write by hand, if you’re able.
Give yourself a time limit.
No edits.
No second thoughts.
Let your pen take a walk across the page.
Ready?
Let’s begin.
This one I lifted directly from a workshop/writing thing I led back in February of 2023…(see above: the garden beckons). It’s a list of words taken from one of my absolute favourite reference volumes: The Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely by Robin Devoe. It’s a gorgeous collection of strange words that have mostly fallen from use although I really wish they would make a comeback.
The invitation is to use these words — without knowing what they mean — in a poem, story, song, letter, recipe….you decide. The result will be delightfully Jabberwockian 1and I challenge you to do it without smiling.
Hint: this is even more fun to do with friends/family
Your words, should you choose to accept them…
gemutlich darkle kenspeckle
godwottery buzziwig windlestraw
erumpent pilliwinks bombilate
windlestraw tanglery wifty
throttlebottom nubliate yonderly
Happy scribbling!!
~m. xo
If you were wondering why on earth I would suggest such a thing — other than it being plain old silly fun — I find it to be very helpful to tune your ear to the rhythm and cadence o of words without having to worry about them making sense. #teachablemoment 🤓
This one was so fun. Thank you!!! 🙏💙✨
Jabberwockian indeed! Oh windlestraw, such wifty fun prompts!