SF0 / spacebug / 100 words

45 + 58 points

100 words by space bug

June 13th, 2006 9:48 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Cut 100 individual words out of different newspapers and magazines or whatever print source you like. Assemble them into some sort of story or poem or such. Try to choose words that call out to you and try not to plan out what your story will be ahead of time. Create a little book for you to paste your story words into.

This task was harder than I imagined it would be. I didn't allow myself very many articles to work with, so it came out as more abstract epithets than much of a cohesive narrative. Also, to avoid myself smooshing around different words for ever and a day, I decided I just needed to stop thinking so hard about it and start gluing. This created kind of an interesting effect as I eventually had fewer and fewer words to work with, so it kind of becomes more abstract as it goes along. But, some things that are very revealing about me came out, as well a nice dig on all you west coasters just for fun. Book constructed of postal paper, cardboard, and twine.

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page 1

I create many noises voracious beat playground orchstrate global peace see the future

page 2

consider minnesota home screw california

page 3

search inside me

page 4

dreams intentions love fear Crabby! body says SNACK? (If you know me at all, you likely know I have the metabolic rate of a flea, and tend to get grumpy when I don't have snacks, and sugar crash. S4, in fact, used to carry around emergency clif bars to avoid such states.)

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