|
AREA 47
SECTION 149: TURBO-PHRASE
+Warning: Turbo-Phrase Lists contain Extremely Offensive Terms!+ +Proceed At Your Own Risk!+
List Zero (Patient Zero)
Maximum meaning in minimum time and space.
Before there was WORDLAB, there was TURBO-PHRASE.
Some phrases are electric with emotion.
Some words jolt with image.
Who was it who said that Art Is An Arrest Of Attention In The Midst Of Distraction? (This is a test!)
These Lists are probably going to get me in trouble. So what else is new? This is a Writer’s Resource. It deliberately goes "Too Far." It will, and should, offend most readers. That's beside the point; this is a tool-kit not meant to be read, but rather utilized. There are potty-mouth characters who know nothing of politically correct. When the Bad Guy bumps his head, he doesn't say, "Tush." When a white-trash Southern peckerwood tells a joke involving an African-American Lawyer, he isn't going to phrase it that way.
My theory is that writers Succeed or Fail at the Sentence Level. Regardless of how great your Message is, if you can’t hold me sentence to sentence, I’m Gone!
Phrases—even single words—come in Flavors: phrases can resonate, like a drop of honey on a tongue, or like a splash of Tabasco.
Find a phrase you need? Fine! Take it! But it's probably been used before. The REAL utility of this collection of expressions is to Spark your own Creativity. When you take a phrase like, Slow Train Coming, and twist it into your own custom expression—Fast Plane Landing—That’s Graduation Day!
These lists are not organized into categories or alphabetized because I have found that browsing through the list RAW works better for jump-starting the WRITING.
List Zero is tame, it's just the initial page of words that infected me with the idea. Then, some would say I took a wrong turn. The novel I was working on at the time had a pimp and the prostitute who kills him (justifiable homicide?) as major characters, and I was trying to get the hang of Street Talk. Some would say I got a little carried away on the other Turbo-Phrase Lists.
Turbo-Phrase List Zero (Patient Zero)
co-star full color sound
clean muscles and drugs
meditation
bedrock beat
quartz ten steps closer
latest LP
deliver out of the blue
beat crazy no gimmicks
vintage
awesome
destiny
interview
skin deep
new idea first with the pros
subversive slow train coming diamond sky
loose talk
shark hunt
last look
bitter song time in stir x-ray spoon-shaped plastic free-spending infinity boat people white-collar melodrama test yourself fantasy object fund-raising muscle mellowed out
face down waste of vinyl hard-core
quicksilver
drive train
5-speed
black month crowds of angry oval office T-shirts captain Kennedy
memories are made tragicomic zing backstage pass romance dance pillow fight things that fade under the game keen minds revolver mobile fidelity middle man spark new life within BB-range pelvic fun
|
