Words – One Letter Out
This writing practice is a play on words. Or playing with words. I love words, always coped well with spelling, but there’s nothing quite like making up your own words, even when they turn out to be nonsense.
List words and change just ONE letter in each. The new word does not need to be real – it often isn’t – but it should be plausible, mean something within the context of the original word, however tenuous that connection might be.
One Letter Out
vocabulary ~ vocabulart negotiation ~ begotiation fornication ~ pornication simplified ~ simplitied culinary ~ cuminary aeroplane ~ aeroplace headmaster ~ headmuster animation ~ animotion operation ~ openation motoring ~ motowing ornamental ~ ornadental revolution ~ revolation activation ~ activotion unwilling ~ unfilling
Your Turn Now
List words you’d like to play with.
Tell your Inner Critic to go and play with someone else’s writing, or better still, use both inner and critic in your list! Or words to that effect.
