Exercise 03: Patterns / Style / Etymologies:
"Take four words that seem to recur in your fiction. Study their etymological histories [...] Collect some sentences with these etymologies rewritten into relatively normal-sounding narrative sentences." [I kind of blew this one off because it wasn't getting me anywhere. I might use it as copy for the back of my novella because it sort of describes it in an abstract way. It is nowhere near the 500 words assigned.]
Absence: To be away. To be away from. A state of being away. A length of being away. A failure to be present, to attend. A lack. To be inattentive.
Disruption: To break apart. To split. A forced separation. Division into parts.
Violate: To break. To ravish. To seize by violence. To take away, hastily. To be carried off from earth to heaven. To treat irreverently, desecrate, profane. To molest sexually.
Void: Unoccupied, vacant. Empty. Lacking or wanting. Legally invalid. Empty space, vacuum. To clear. Deprive of legal validity.
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