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Oulipo anyone? To do this exercise, take a piece of text - I used a short piece from a newspaper- and replace every noun (not proper) with the seventh noun after it in a dictionary. It's a lot of fun, and a good exercise if the creative juices aren't flowing :)

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A mandate with a bizarre fever for pink ungulate
has been jailed for walking through a clam wearing
only a pair of swag and a bandwagon.
Malcolm King had only been released in January
for an earlier indecent exposure income in Plymouth
when he was seen striding down Exeter’s main
shopping strife nearly naked.
 

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I just saw there was a writing techniques forum- sorry if this should be there instead. However, it's a poetic technique so I'll leave it up to the moderator to decide where it belongs. Blame any faux-pas on my newbie-ness!
 

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Aieee, the poor clam!

:D

Sounds like a fun game. I'd take a turn but don't at the moment own a paper dictionary.
 

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This would probably fit in Writing Exercises, but you came here first. So we claim you!
 

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*note to self: get paper dictionary forthwith*

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How about using a dictionary for a foreign language? So take the English text and translate the noun, look it up in the foreign dictionary and do the 7th word thing and translate it back. Might be funner.
 

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come on, someone must have a dictionary! It's a fun exercise, I promise :)
 
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Hmm. Might it work with any book? Any book that has nouns, of course.

Maybe I'll try that! (Tomorrow though.)