Forum: Story Ideas

Cook to Meal – this week's four letter word game

Phase one is to change one letter in the base word (Cook) to form a new word.

Now continue changing one letter in each new word until you get to the target word (Meal).

Phase two is to create a story using in order the words in your list, each word appearing in its own sentence. You are permitted to change a word in your list to a different form of the same word; for example, bent could become bend or bending.

Phase three is to send your completed word list and story to me. I will attempt to illustrate it and then post it to SoL. If you wish you can supply your own illustrations or suggest illustrations.

After catching a coot in the castle moat, the cook stripped off its feathery coat then braised the meat - not much of a meal, but safer than venturing into the outside world during the zombie apocalypse.

(Yes, I know I didn't follow the instructions.)

AJ

I'm curious about the game.

I'm familiar with the first part. My newspaper calls it a Word Ladder. The object is to complete the transformation in as few steps as possible.

But when it comes to writing a story, surely there's an incentive to use a more scenic route. For SOL especially, from cook you can go to cock, then cuck, then fuck (and suck) etc.

And for @ystokes, I can certify that my contribution was free of intelligence, artificial or otherwise ;-)

AJ

I'm curious about the game.

I'm familiar with the first part. My newspaper calls it a Word Ladder. The object is to complete the transformation in as few steps as possible.

But when it comes to writing a story, surely there's an incentive to use a more scenic route. For SOL especially, from cook you can go to cock, then cuck, then fuck (and suck) etc.

In this version there is no special incentive to get to the target word in as few steps as possible. As you suggest, more steps can be an advantage.