Choose and Change (New Game)

[papermoon.lady]

Let's try this new game... 🙂

You have a word and have to write a sentence with an antonym of this word (it must not be a perfect antonym/opposite). The sentence must contain at least three other words (not including articles, pronouns etc.)

The next poster then chooses a word from the sentence of the previous poster (not the antonym, any other word) and builds a new sentence with the antonym of the word he or she has chosen.

For example:

START - She finished her delicious meal in no time.

The antonym of "start" is "finish/finished", so the next poster has to choose between "delicious", "meal" and "time" (the antonym can't be used) and has to write a sentence with the antonym of the chosen word and with at least three other nouns.

Let's get started... 🙂

[countessalmirena]

FELLOW - She drew her long tan coat around her as she paused on the steps before heading out into the chill air; the street rumbled with the distant sound of traffic, but there was only one other person passing by, and as they passed each other she saw that his face was that of a stranger.

(Oops - in my last post, I led us astray in to the land of synonyms instead of antonyms.)

[mytreechange]

CHILL - It was a wonderful day to walk in the local park, lifting her smiling face to the warmth of the sun, so very welcome after the last week of dreary cloud and drizzle, which had kept her mainly inside, preventing her usual outing and interactions with other walkers.

(Oops from my end too - I obviously didn't even notice 😕 )

[countessalmirena]

SMILING - It was overcast again on Skye; Adam and Fiona had chosen a poor day for their attempt at Cuillin, as the fierce rocky heights scowling down at them seemed to warn them off with an air of sullen unapproachability, and the clouds swaddling the grey welkin threatened more rain before the morning’s end.

[mytreechange]

ROCKY - It had been a long day, and she was exhausted from the continuous phone calls and face-to-face interactions, so found it to be a huge relief when she could finally collapse into the marshmallowy softness of her wonderfully comfortable armchair.

[countessalmirena]

FACE - In the thin grey light of the dawn, Miss Regina Thelknoy gathered her pink dressing-gown around her body and darted out of her cottage to cut the head off the daffodils profusely blooming in her neighbour’s garden - but to her horror, Mr Doblin was waiting for her behind a shrub and leapt out mid-snip to confront her; with a shriek she turned on her heels to scurry back to the cottage.

[mytreechange]

COTTAGE - What a long drive it had been to reach the ruins of the ancient castle, winding around narrow laneways, and up steep, badly maintained hilly tracks, but it was completely worth it to wander around the vine covered ruins, and imagine what it would have been like to live in such a cold and isolated place.

[countessalmirena]

DRIVE - Heat shimmered like oil suspended in the air under the intolerably white eye of midday; she was conscious of that heat in her throat, in her lips, down the back of her neck, on the soles of her feet as she placed one in front of the other, forward, unthinking, ever onward, on the long walk that took her, so slowly, so wearily, towards the only town within a thousand miles.

[mytreechange]

CONSCIOUS - Walking along the street, he was so deep in thought that he was completely unaware of the oddly dressed young woman who was behaving in a very unusual manner.

[countessalmirena]

ODDLY - The streets immediately around St George’s had been cordoned off, with security ensuring that there were no disruptions or any danger to upset the wedding of Lord Arbuthwyn (attired most conservatively in morning dress) to the Honourable Miss Cressida Mandevlin, whose wedding gown was surprisingly unflattering, considering its substantial cost and the name of the designer.

[mytreechange]

DANGER - He was unsure why his intuition was telling him to leave the building immediately, but had learned to trust those feelings, so left through the nearest exit, just in time to jump to safety as a very large tree fell on to the roof and crushed the room he had so recently been sitting in.