God's dice always have a lucky roll.
~Sophocles, Fragments l, 763
To round out the week, let's play some dice. Your assignment is to fold several paper cubes (here's a pdf template, and here's an online tool for generating printable word dice.)
Write a word or phrase on each side of each die. I usually have six verbs on one die, six adverbs on another, and so on, so that by rolling several dice at a time I end up with a complete sentence.
I don't reckon he used this technique, but one of my favorite poems, by the Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres, seems like a great model for what this kind of approach can yield:
Dice Game
to be lost then found again
my whole life has been that way
it was good to sit beside the sea
to let the waves wash over me
my whole life has been that way
to be lost then found again
to let the waves wash over me
it was good to sit beside the sea
to let the waves wash over me
it was good to sit beside the sea
to be lost then found again
my whole life has been that way
it was good to sit beside the sea
to let the waves wash over me
my whole life has been that way
to be lost then found again
— Sándor Weöres
translated by William Jay Smith