Unmagnetic Prosetry

While I was planning the writing workshop at my local library I had the idea of doing something like magnetic poetry, but using the opening 300 words from some of my favorite short stories and novels. I didn't tell my participants which story the words had come from until they'd reconfigured them into something totally different. I just love the idea of using the exact same words to make an entirely new story. Ah, the magic of language!Here's the one I did:I was hampered slightly by the words I didn't have (all right, so I cheated a little), but I was still pretty tickled with how it turned out. Can you guess whose words I rearranged?Jedediah Berry! (Now when is that man coming out with a new novel?!)It's a little labor intensive (I used a tiny rotary cutter to cut up the words), but I still think this is a great way to loosen yourself up--and once you have the words in a Ziploc bag you can take them out and make something new whenever you like.