Word

A word

Choose a word.

Any word, you pick, it’s your choice.

Have you got one yet?

Now say it in your head. Repeat it. Hear it echo. Say it slowly, say it fast. Play with it.

Your ..... chosen .... word

Now, are you quite sure it’s the word that you want? You still have a chance to change.

Ok?

So, it”s the word you wanted, the word you chose.

So why?

There are over 270,000 words in the Oxford Dictionary and more besides and you have chosen that one .

Why that word?

Of all the words available you chose that word. It’s not random, it can’t be, it’s not like picking a card from a deck. So why?

What is your relationship to that word?

Pause to think. 

Leave some space.

Think about why that particular word

Say the word in your head again.

What other words are gathering around it? What memories? What feelings?

How many letters does it have? Is that number important?

If your word was in a sentence what would that sentence be?

Say it in your head. Hear it. Hear how the other words play around it. Your word surrounded by friends. Keep that sentence, remember it.

Now think. Imagine. 

You are on a bus. It’s been raining. The windows are misted up from the damp warmth of bodies. Beads roll down the glass their journeys started by a bump in the road. 

There is someone sitting in front of you. You can see the back of their head. 

Look at them. Is it someone you know? A stranger? Look at them and see the details, the colours, the hair, the clothing. Who are they? How old are they? Man, woman?

You lean forward. You whisper your sentence.

That’s the start of your story. 

So, like the bus, a journey but where is that word, that sentence, that story x your story going?