I know there is a thread like this in another section of the forums but i figured its a good way to get the creative juices flowing!
Directions:
Take a short, simple sentence and make it longer by glorifying it with details (and, hence, extra word count).
For example,
She cooked dinner.
can become
In a fury she cranked open the can, dumped the mushy vegetable soup into a plastic bowl, punched up the microwave, and called it dinner.
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He cried out.
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"Scars don't make the man y'know? It's how the man bears the scars."
"There is no such thing as day without night, joy without pain, or success without loss, but that will never make it easier for the heart."
0 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2008 - 13 25
"So you think you're going to win the pig hollarin contest, you puny voiced, prepubescent, skinny sack a bones; no one can top my loquacious lungs cause my Pappy was a yodeler from Switzerland and taught me to project YODA-LADY-HOOOOOOOOO!!!
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The moon rose
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Eliska aka kayJen
734 / 50,000
oct. 13, 2008 - 05 51
The moon slowly crawled its way across the night sky, nestled among the thousands of winking stars that adorned the inky blackness, looking for all the world like a paper lantern spun of silver, floating in a sea of darkness.
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She crossed the street.
0 / 50,000
oct. 18, 2008 - 06 29
Used to English zebra crossings, where cars were required to stop and wait for everyone to cross safely under penalty of law, she found herself astounded by the blinking numbers that marked the crosswalks of Washington, D.C., seeming a countdown to one's death if one failed to make it to the other side ahead of the dreaded zero.
(Based on a friend of mine XD)
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He played jump rope.