Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Creative Writing Prompt

I found a website today called "Creative Writing Prompts." It prompts writers to write about things they wouldn't normally think of. I found one that piqued my interest. It said to get a dictionary and find 10 words that you don't know the meaning of, and don't look at the definition. Create your own meaning for the words, and write about what you think it should mean, and how the word makes you feel. In other words, attach your own meaning to it. For the next 10 days I will choose a word from the list and write about it.

todays word is rixiform. I will post the actual definition after I create my own meaning.

rixiform, adjective. able but unwilling to bend under pressure or stimulus of any kind; stoic; unreactive, hardened. When I read this word somehow the picture of a lawn mower blade appears in my mind. A lawnmower blade will eventually bend under pressure, but just imagine one that wouldn't. It would also be something that is not brittle.. This can also describe a person who could be swayed, but chooses to value their opinion more than another's. Here are a few sentences to display context:

The cold steel bars of the cell were rixiform to him; they seemed to cry out with laughter when he ran his metal cup across them. They defied his need for freedom.

The jury remained absolutely rixiform when the defendant was cross-examined, for the jury was rigged, and would not be swayed to convict someone of their own demographic.

Note: I tried several times to search for a definition, but I could not find one. I found this word on a random dictionary word list site.

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