29 Days Remain
A continuation of my #last100days2023 project
Welcome to my #last100dayproject!
What will you do with the remaining 29 days of 2023?
Today’s prompt:
What image or memory comes to mind when you think of the word “misheard”?
I keep a note in my KEEP app of misheard things. Sometimes it is something I misheard when I am eavesdropping or in conversation. Sometimes when I am using voice to text Google will mishear me and the result is more interesting than what I said!
Young kids do this all the time.
Some examples:
I heard “Singapore” instead of CITY HALL
I heard “zero participation” instead of PRECIPITATION
I heard “gown lawn” instead of GONE LAWN (lit magazine)
I heard “tornado sandwich” instead of TOMATO SANDWICH
I heard “melting day” instead of MEETING DAY
These are all making their way into stories!
A movie based on this concept of using the wrong words called THE TOURIST with Johnny Depp.
The word for using a similar but wrong word is a malapropism. A malapropism is when someone uses an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound. This can be done intentionally or unintentionally.
I invite you to search your notebooks and drives for the prompt word and see what drafts you have that you can resurrect and revise.
What will you write today?
A list
A metaphor
A memory
One sentence
A conversation imagined between you and a stranger
Whatever you choose - have fun!
Happy writing!
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A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is working on a non-fiction book about how to submit and publish your first pieces. She is the creator and host of THE BRADBURY TRIO COURSE. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, South Florida Poetry Journal, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.