A paragraph using these 5 words

For the past three and a half months I’ve been teaching Creative Writing to the SYBMM (second year students of the Bachelor of Mass Media) students in St Xavier’s college in Mumbai. If there was just one word to describe them it would be ‘incorrigible.’ It’s pretty difficult to control a class of 60 students when most of them are constantly chatting and joking around. I thought they wouldn’t do well in the tests but they surprised me – even the ones who were constantly talking.

   One question in their test paper was this: Write a paragraph using the words ‘blue, minute, present, dog, wound.’  Here are a few samples written by these feisty 19 year olds

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Rohan  Cooper

The unshaven man wound up the small object  and  set it  on a blue tarp. Then he disappeared into the crowd, like a salmon in a shoal of a thousand. A small dog seemed intrigued by the ticking object and started sniffing it. A few metres away, a young man presented the love of his life with a dazzling engagement ring. A few metres further, a  painter was completing the final touches on what would be his masterpiece. In a minute came the explosion. A massive ball of fire consumed the crowd with a searing rage. Then, there was only deafening silence.

COLOURS AND THEIR SYNONYMS

 
SOME COLOURFUL THOUGHTS

 Our Writers' club has a page on Facebook called 'Writestuff Writing Club. Here some of the 185 members regularly post their thoughts, poems and short stories.

 On one occasion I asked them to mention five synonyms for the colour RED. Sushma Mehta Shah compared red to an angry face, fire, autumn leaves, and the traditional red wedding saree. Priya Sanghvi Madhavdas ‎said that the colour red reminded her of Flushed Cheeks 2) Wine 3) Cherries or Tomatoes 4) Danger....as in when you see red 5) The status of a married woman....her Sindoor . Chaitali Shah said that Red stood for: Heart, Signal, Cross, Fire Brigade, BEST Buses in Mumbai. 18 year old Hina Thadani said that Red made her think of :Blood, Apples, Tail light of vehicles, Ruby and Wine. Phorum Pandya's red: blushing cheeks, mahableshwar strawberries, teary eyes, oozing blood after misusing the kitchen knife. And here's  Aanchal Shetty's Red: 1) the colour I see when I shut my eyes in broad daylight, 2) sindoor that is applied by and to all married bengali women during sindoor khela, 3) red lips and talons of a sharp corporate dresser. 4) red carpet with actress in deep red gowns hugging their perfect figures, 5) autumn leaves.

   Next we had a go at the colour BLUE.
Aanchal Shetty saw Blue in: 1) the Ashok Chakra in our flag, 2) the bottle of Camel Ink, 3) the ink stain on fingers and white uniform (that I wore with pride as it denoted our transition from primary to secondary section), 4) the ocean with its azure waters that beckons one to leave the safety of the shore and venture into the unknown, 5) the ink blue sky sprinkled with stars that hold the promise of sweet dreams and lull me to sleep .Swapna Redij sang the blues of the Blue sea at Somnath, Blue waters of the Narmada, Blue mountains, Blue sky in Ladakh, Blue ink, Blue eyes, Bluebells, Blueberries, Films like Blue, Avatar and Saawariya, The Blue Nile, Blue Gods (Ram, Krishna), She continued by going blue in the face, blue heavens, colours navy blue, sky blue, royal blue; blues singer . To Phorum Pandya blue meant: Camlin pastel paint bottle, peacock's feather, Krishna,  Blue Frog, the nightclub, deep sea water and sadly, also heart ache.