Up: [[Life Writing]] Related: [[Words, Beautiful and Otherwise]] Created: 2024-12-07 Updated: 2025-12-06 Word tickets are paper ‘admit one’ type tickets on which you write words. It’s the poor man’s version of magnetic poetry. Wooldbridge suggests writing nouns and verbs of anything that comes to mind. #### Good Sources for Words - field guides for specialized collections - example - repair manual - swivel, internal vent valve, choke hinge pin - foreign language - example - Spanish - nuevo, estar, poder, haber, la vida - actions - example - words describing ways to move - swagger, trudge, waddle, amble, creep, drift, sprint - senses - example - sound - hum, fizz, sizzle, racket, harmony, whisper - colour - example - shades of green - emerald, forest, lime, olive, army, chartreuse Then simply put some words together and see what you can do with them. For example, what mind pictures emerge for an “emerald sizzling waddle?” > [!user] Susan Goldsmith Wooldbridge in *Poemcrazy: freeing your life with words*