{"id":149,"date":"2009-06-25T01:39:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T06:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-06-24T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T19:53:18","slug":"word-swapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2009\/06\/word-swapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Swapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>I like writing exercises &#8211; things that make me think.<\/p>\n<p>I came across a good one today from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manageyourwriting.com\/2009\/06\/this-week-do-the-alphabet-shift.html\">Kenneth Davis at ManageYourWriting.com<\/a>. He calls it the <em>Alphabet Shift<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>choose a word you&#8217;ve written beginning with a letter from the first half of the alphabet. Replace it with a more effective word beginning with a letter from the second half of the alphabet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I started to think of variations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Choose a word that begins with a consonant, replace it with a word beginning with a vowel.<\/p>\n<p>Choose a word that has an even number of letters, replace it with a word that has an odd number of letters.<\/p>\n<p>Choose a word that names a place, replace it with a word that names a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Choose a word that is strong, replace it with a word that is weak.<\/p>\n<p>Choose a word with color, replace it with a word with sound.<\/p>\n<p>Choose a word with taste, replace it with a word with scent.<\/p>\n<p>Choose a word with thought, replace it with a word with touch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We can double the number of exercises by flip-flopping each of the above. For example,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Choose a word beginning with a letter from the second half of the alphabet, replace it with a word beginning with a letter from the first half of the alphabet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and so on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And here is a bigger exercise for two groups of people.\u00a0Choose a well known passage from a book.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To be or not to be, that is the question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roll a dice or use some method to pick a random number, e.g. 4. The 4th word in this passage is &#8220;not.&#8221; That word begins with a consonant, so replace it with a word that begins with a vowel. Keep selecting other words in the saying letting the groups take turns with word swapping exercises.<\/p>\n<p>How long can this go on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I like writing exercises &#8211; things that make me think. I came across a good one today from Kenneth Davis at ManageYourWriting.com. He calls it the Alphabet Shift. choose a word you&#8217;ve written beginning with a letter from the first half of the alphabet. Replace it with a more effective word beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20,5],"tags":[154,142,128],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-learning","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-learning","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}