Living a Dream

Yesterday's 1000 words went to Hashtag Basketball , so I'm three for three. Today is feeling a little tougher, so today I'm going to try something different. At home I have something called " Story Cubes ," which are 6-sided dice with an image on each side. The idea is that you roll the dice and make up a story using all nine words. Typically you start with "Once upon a time..." It's somewhere between a party game and a creative activity. Since I'm at work (on a slow day) and the dice are at home, I'm going to use a 9-word generation from RandomWordGenerator.com and make up a story. This should be weird. I'm setting the max number of syllables per word at 4. Here's the list: Story, translate, popular, smell, bloody, rule, authorise (with an S?! I'm gonna change that), variation, volunteer. The goal will be to start typing in a moment and create the entire story in one fell swoop, but if a student comes in, I'll have to ...