Be Careful With Words

On 'Lith, 'Sleazenation' started a thread entitled Good News which has the summary: "Describe to me in single words only the good things that come into your head..."

And then Autodidactic on Live Journal wrote Tell Me Something Good About Your World.

I love both of these.

It makes you think. You have to choose carefully. If you have only a single word for each 'good thing' then it makes you sparing about a/what to include, b/how to include it and c/how to make it make sense.

I like the idea of this. I like the idea of telling a story in limited, individual, single words. It's a similar principle to the Haiku poem; sparing and minimal.

Ha. You see, limits are good, because we writers tend to delight in the sound of our own typing. We can be so garrulous. (N.B. I am assuming here for the purposes of this entry that I also count as a writer. No pretence of talent or intelligence or glamour or grandeur should be assumed by this, I am merely referring to the fact that I put fingertip to keyboard on a fairly regular basis.)

So anyway. This is what I wrote:

Mist
Autumn
Trees
Golden
Driving
Home

then

Hearth
Wood
Warmth
Love
Him
Son

then

Laugh
Family
Kiss
Desire
Coat
Fireworks!


What would you write?