Writing practice: More imagery
As an exercise, I’ll rewrite headlines from yesterday’s newspapers…
“Rubio takes message to Panama”: Then State unsheathed the silk-wrapped sword of war
[not what happened, but it’s an attempt]
“Europe Weighs How to Bolster Military Might”: Europe looks to marshal martial marshals
[ok that’s just silly and not imagery, but whatever]
From Dracula: “How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them.”: The stitching of these threaded documents Shall seem whole cloth that’s tailored to your frame.
[not bad]
Next line: “All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact.”: All adjectives and adverbs have been lost – The nucleus of nouns and verbs remains, In bold relief stands text of simple truth Made strange by modern tongues and dialects.
[i could tweak this but i’m out of time today. not bad]