The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

it looks and sounds—and the signified is the concept, the meaning. In normal conversation we tend to concentrate on the signifie ...

First, we will see what happens when we take one word and forge others from it which are similar to it in sound. In doing this I ...

will notice how I am exploiting the different senses of the word ‘green’: the way we associate it with colour, or with naivety, ...

energy dynamism energy exercise energy electricity energy aerobics energy pen energy light Let’s go further now: instead of conf ...

Example 1.7 greengage plum apple eve mother earth ground zero green to smithereens Granny Smith baby smith Adam Smith USA AID LD ...

who was born in Poland and whose work shows considerable European influence. The text is not entirely driven by word association ...

The programme-cuts will one by one proceed apace, which will entail laying off paying off with luck all the teachers of dead lan ...

Example 1.13 They stood under the big tree and talked slowly Under the tree they stood and slowly talked big The big tree stood ...

language to lead the way. It’s important when undertaking this kind of exercise not to stick with a preconceived meaning, but to ...

Example 1.17 Travel is exciting Excitement in travel is there exciting travel? Travel is titillating Travel is tickets To travel ...

and chill the way. sadly brother time gives no clues but a shadow. celluloid rushes side by side, nature baptises back alley tem ...

unadorned and unpropitious work. an uncomfortably colourful world. another concept of imagination. another crucifixion in terms. ...

we need to approach the past to approach the past we need we need to approach the pastoral we need to approach the pastoral in a ...

use joining words such as ‘of ’ or ‘is’ which bind the words together into a phrase, or employ the word ‘like’ to form a compari ...

writing. You can then ‘run’ with the referent: that is, let it suggest all sorts of different directions, some of which you will ...

distorting lens). And the mirror is haunted by the relationship between illusion and reality, since the image both reflects and ...

She glares back at me warningly. She says, ‘I’m bitterly disappointed.’ Then she says, ‘You’re lucky.’ I turn my eyes. Even side ...

he had lived with her.And now their life together was whole as only the past can be whole. Abruptly Biff turned away. From The H ...

term, don’t you find—rear-view mirror—so filled with plod and particularity? Compare the snappier French: rétroviseur. Retrovisi ...

Sometimes you turn the mirror to the wall, or you look into the mirror and see nothing, or you mistake a new reflection for your ...