Recipe - _ing, _ed, Puss in Boots

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18th September 2015

OOh, writing this as a recipe was harder than I thought!

My 'EBIF' - even better if, has to be: to be more consistent in my style. I need to commit more to the language and vocabulary of a real recipe.

(photo to follow)

Prompts / date	18th  September 2015
FMS Photo a day	My own
Text type	Recipe
Sentence type	_ing, _ed
Story	Puss in Boots

_ing, _ed

adds detail. adverbial - location

begin sentence with _ing followed by location of the action. Then next action.

Dancing in the studio, she watched in horror as a ghost appeared.

Recipe for Puss in Boots

Ingredients

A dead miller

An orphaned teen

A pair of boots for the cat

A sprinkling of country folk

Several gifts

A king and his daughter in a carriage

A river

An ogre in a castle

Method

Combine the orphaned teenager with the cat. Add a dash of ingenuity and a splash of ruthlessness.

Rinse the boy in the river while the cat infuses the country folk with subterfuge. Continue mixing the boy with an unsuspecting, naïve King until the ‘Marquis of Carabas’ is created.

Let the King, his daughter and the boy rest in the carriage.

Meanwhile, use the cat to transform the ogre first into a lion then a mouse. Allow the cat to react naturally with mouse, thus removing the ogre from the castle.

Add the contents of the carriage to the castle, leave to prove until marriage is proposed.

Enjoy this dish happily ever after.

Wild Swans - Tanka (Haiku style poem) - irony

Today's #afewwordsaday #KAFWAD submission

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12th September 2015

What do you think of my Tanka poems? It's my first attempt. Can you do better?

Opposite: the King's wife was beautiful on the outside but when he looked at her he was filled with horror.

Prompts / date	12th September 2015
FMS Photo a day	opposite
Text type	Tanka
Sentence type	Irony
Story	The Wild Swans

Irony	overstates how good or bad something is, rest of sentence reveals overstated word to be false. Our 'luxury' room turned out to be a farm building. The 'trip of our dreams' was, in fact, our worst nightmare.
Tanka	5-7-5-7-7 last two lines change pace or tone

The Six Swans

The king had six sons

His wife turned them into swans

Their sister saved them

She knitted shirts from nettles

and turned them back into men

So this one doesn’t change the tone or pace, let’s try again with a bit more help from Alan Peat's '50 ways to re-tell a story':

I was a sad girl.

My six brothers were now swans.

I had to save them:

For six years I could not speak

And knitted six nettle shirts.

Better – but no irony…

Six boys and one girl.

one step mum and a cruel spell:

Six swans and one girl.

Six years of knitting nettles.

Six brothers back: just one wing.

Hmm, still no irony. Let’s try just part of the story…

A king, lost, no hope.

An old woman can help him

If he weds her girl.

This ‘worthy and pretty’ girl

Filled our king’s heart with horror.

Sunlight - Jack and the Beanstalk - hidden acrostic - imagine x 3

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7th September 2015

The version of Jack and the Beanstalk I used as a format is my family's favourite. It's a picture boo by Sally Grindley and Peter Utton, called 'Shhh!' Find it on Amazon here.

My sentence doesn't quite follow the format, but I think it is used effectively. 

Prompts
FMS Photo a day	Sunlight
Text type	Hidden acrostic
Sentence type	Imagine x 3
Story	Jack and the beanstalk

Hidden acrostic	Focus word has one letter in each line but not first or last – so try 2nd letter, or 1st letter of second line
Imagine x 3	Adds interest, builds atmosphere. Describe 3 parts of something, separated by commas. Use a colon after the third one and finish with a linked clause. Imagine a place where the sun always shines, where wars never happen, where no-one ever dies: in the Andromeda 5 system there is such a planet.

Lazy Jack was supposed to sell his cow but came home with 5 beans instead. He much preferred sitting in the sunlight to trudging the long way to market.

Shhh! Jack, you are about to enter a

Giant’s Abominable castle.

Hey – Come inside! Imagine

The Kitchen (where he’ll cook you if he finds you!); 

The Attic (where I hope he is asleep);

The Nooks and crannies (which you’ll need to hide in if you wake him).

Shh! Don’t make a sound.

Look – There’s the giant’s pet mouse.

If He wakes, he’ll run and tell the Giant.

His Ears are twitching! And there’s the giant’s cat.

Shhh! Be quiet. Let’s go past very quickly.

Whoops! Eeek! Jack you made the floorboard squeak! Is the

Cat Awake?

He’s Not?

Good! Shhh!

Look! There’s the giant.

Jack! Almost there. I dare you to say,

‘Boo!’ Listen to that snore! Oh, it's stopped...

Quicky Koalas, he’s coming! Run!