This slump cheat is called Writing Scrabble. Just like how you collect letters to form words in the game Scrabble, you select a bunch of 10-20 words randomly from the dictionary, and try to make something up using some or all of those words.

You can string it up into a short story, like how as kids we did those “Complete the sentence…” homework. Or it can be pieced into a poem, or a free verse. I quite like the idea of using random words to ‘jester’, by writing poems that read like it links up but are actually completely nonsensical, or up to how the reader interprets it.

Here’s the 20 words I picked:

affinity, comfortably, opinionated, jigsaw, acrobat, pressing, opponent, urgency, minimize, off, lead, hearing, keeper, secular, continue, sneeze, infant, discount, flashback, dolphin 

Here goes! Selected words in bold:

                                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What a keeper! What affinity! 

To have your opponent pressing you with urgency

like an infant crying out for a dolphin   

no matter how opinionated he might be, 

Continue walking on comfortably,

as an acrobat would walking on tightrope

while piecing a jigsaw bought in discount store.

Even if he sneeze,

hearing that, bless him quietly, 

in a secular way

Minimize contact, turn off all exchanges

Else it will lead

to a weird flashback once more.