From: Round em up Raw Words Subject: EXERCISE: The Wizard is OUT? Bad news. The wizard (of odd, id, oz, izzy and horiat, or erewhon...at your pleasure and indiscretion) had to wobble off to lunch. [well, At least the wiz was holding that tummy when the wobbling set in (shortly after mumbling something about bad buns or puns or something...)] In the absence of the wiz, YOU are in charge! yes, for a once in a lifetime thrill, you are sitting in the hotseat when... the hotline rings. you pick it up, and there is a voice on the line, asking one of those questions that makes the world spin and monkeys race through the vines... (TAKE NOTES!) you, with cool calmness, fortitude, and other wisdom tempered by the flames of adversity and so forth, answer with the precise words and logic to calm their troubled little life! [whoo, faked them out, huh!] and the phone rings again? yes, while waiting for the wiz to fill that gaping pit under the unclean nostrils, you get call after call, each penetrating in its questioning of the world, and you respond with vorpal swords or undulating words or something like that... do at least five questions. make the dialogue sharp, so we get a picture of the person at the other end and really want to keep reading. make your answers, your responses, as if you were a candidate for the position of grand wiz (which may be true... what's keeping the rascal now?) [locked the door to keep him out? what a joker!] a phone, a bell ringing, and you...what a pretty little scene... WRITE! tink