Ba-Da-Bing!!!
A sentence creating exercise
to
thrill your reader!
Problem:
Writer can see it;
reader can’t.
Solution:
Ba-da-bing!
Ba-da-bing!
Now, you write a simple sentence,
and I’ll show you a trick.
Now, write three short sentences with
these three parts:
Where your feet went,
What you saw,
And what you thought.
Ba-da-bing!
Here, I will show you:
I'm going to eat pizza. (simple
sentence)
I walked in the kitchen.
I saw two large pepperoni pizzas.
I thought to myself “Dinner is going to
be incredibly delicious!”
Ba-da-bing!
Now, I am going to put all three
together:
When I walked in the kitchen,
I saw two large pepperoni
pizzas. I thought to myself
“Dinner is going to be incredibly
delicious!”
BA-DA-BING!
Ba-da-bing!
When I stepped out onto
the stage, I could hear the
audience clapping. “What
was I so afraid of?” I thought.
“This is fun!”
Ba-da-bing!
When I went into the kitchen,
I saw my mom at the stove,
stirring a pot. Mmmmm, I
thought. Chili!
Now you try one!
Ba-da-bing!
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Was that difficult?
How many of these would you
want in your essay?
Is there only one way to
punctuate this?
Could you change the eye to
other senses?
Did you use another word other
than “walked”?