Assignment 4
Choose a color to write about. Use the thesaurus function on your software or a printed thesaurus at least ten times during this exercise. Work to focus your writing and write tight. Make the assignment no more than 250 words.
Some say that I am the reflection of all colors. Neither good nor evil, I can be freshly starched KKK robes or the Universal sign of purity. Blinding when the sun flashes on new snow, I can also be soft as the wise old crone’s crowning glory.
I can be boring as a plain wall and sticky as sushi rice or wild as elephant’s tusks, artistic as scrimshaw; whimsical as vapor trails in an azure sky or the fog snagged like angel hair in the tops of giant Christmas trees racing over the Marin headlands toward the heat.
I am white.