I’ve been keeping up my Daily 5 exercises most days, and enjoying it. The exercises are a mix of all kinds of techniques, from character development to plotting to descriptiveness to simple brainstorming. I had fun with the one I did yesterday. Here it is, just because.

Write a brief scene that includes the following:

  • a quilt
  • the word “quotient”
  • a ball of rubber bands
  • a morbidly obese hippopotamus
  • the perfume of lilies
  • the sound of popcorn underfoot

She threw the quilt off her lap. “I’m tired of lying around all weekend like some fat hippo. I’m going to a movie.”

She primped, put on a sundress and plenty of makeup, and gave herself a good dose of lily-scented perfume. Her husband watched meekly, picking at his prized ball of rubber bands with one hand while scribbling on tax forms with the other. “Divide the value in box 6A by the number of dependents… enter the quotient in box 12C…” he muttered, not entirely to himself.

She rolled her eyes and headed to the door. She could already smell the popcorn and hear it crunching under her pedicured, sandaled feet. She was free.

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