August 10, 2011 Writing Prompt

This Week’s Prompt

1. Vamoose – to depart quickly
2. Odious -arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance; hateful
3. Factiod – an invented fact believed to be true because of its appearance in print; a briefly stated and usually trivial fact
4. Prodigious – resembling or befitting a prodigy : strange, unusual; exciting amazement or wonder; extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree; enormous
5. Bombard – to attack especially with artillery or bombers; to assail vigorously or persistently (as with questions); to subject to the impact of rapidly moving particles (as electrons)

Take these words and use them to overcome your writer’s block or write something just for fun. Use each of the five words in the same, coherent story, then share it with us.

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