Writing exercise: Plot #1 ENG

Instructions

Imagine a character and write a max of 250 words where every sentence is a rising action. Write your first sentence introducing the character using one of the following twelve words. Make the next sentence a rising action, write your third sentence, then write your fourth sentence with a rising action that includes one of the remaining eleven words you haven’t used.

Try to use as many words as possible. 

• trick
• memory
• aboard
• tiger
• pretend
• carrot
• appliance
• cage
• rings
• crow
• filthy
• explode

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Jin, the deceiver painter 

Jin is a beautiful, handsome man, with long golden hair and blue eyes, who pretends to be a great artist.

But the truth is he is a mischievous deceiver, who relies on tricks, scams and frauds to dupe naive people.

He once fooled an old merchant, trading a carrot, which he said it was a magic wand, with a horse.

During his journey, he met a witch to whom he sold a wooden appliance. “It’s a powerful artifact!” he said.

The witch recognized the lie and closed Jin in a cage, segregating him in a hidden cave into the woods.

After days of imprisonment, while the witch was preparing a potion her caldron exploded and part of the cage melted.

Jin grabbed a small sack full of a red powder and blew it against the witch, who lost her memories.

Then he stole her five Rings of Randomness, each one made of a different material: silver, gold, platinum, mercury, osmium.

Suddenly, a random magic triggered: Jin became a crow and flew to the nearest city, where he came back human.

He went to the docks where he saw a small boat, in bad conditions, with an enormous tiger as figurehead.

«Who is the captain of this filthy cockleshell? My name is Jin, artist and painter, sorcerer and hero!» he shout.

No man was in sight when a creepy, rough voice replied: «Take aboard that offensive tongue of yours, young man».

***Personal grade: 6.5/10***

Personal opinion. A simple exercise, where you can choose to use less words and write more to reach the 250 words, or write shorter sentences using all the words. In this last case it's harder to obtain a coherent and sensible story,because many words are not connected to the others.