Thursday 22 August 2013

Creative Writing: An Exercise in Repetitive Pattern


The Experiment

The rusty lever creaks creepily
The brash lightning flashes momentarily
The mad scientist laughs hysterically
The steel corpse awakens revitalized

The steel lightning creaks revitalized
The rusty scientist flashes creepily
The brash corpse laughs momentarily
The mad lever awakens hysterically

The mad scientist creaks hysterically
The steel corpse flashes revitalized
The rusty lever laughs creepily
The brash lightning awakens momentarily

The brash corpse creaks momentarily
The mad lever flashes hysterically
The steel lightning laughs revitalized
The rusty scientist awakens creepily

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I used a pattern to rotate each word of the sentence either up or down in the paragraph for each sentence to form the next paragraph, akin to a rotating wheel. The transformation of each set of words to the next has different effects on meaning and imagery and hence, it is a double connotation on 'The Experiment' - referring to Dr Frankenstein


                                  (replaced by 'lightning')
Static (The) Down (rusty) Up (lever) Static (creaks) Down (creepily)
                 (replaced by 'steel')                                                       (replaced by 'revilatized')

->Becomes-> The steel lightning creaks revitalized




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