Showing posts with label run-on sentence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label run-on sentence. Show all posts

Monday, January 24, 2011

The Day I met Arnold Schwarzenegger

For a quick-write in my Advanced Fiction Workshop class through UC Davis Extension, I was asked to write a paragraph using one long sentence.

Yep, you got it.  I was asked to write one big run-on sentence.

I just so happened to have met Arnold Schwarzenegger that day, so decided to use that momentous event for inspiration.

Just for fun, I'll share it with you now.

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The Day I met Arnold Schwarzenegger

He leaned toward me, him standing, me sitting, held out his hand and said, "Hello, Margaret," and I looked into his eyes, shook his hand, and answered, Hello Mr. Schwarzenegger," and I noticed how his hair was thick and set back from a long forehead and how his face was tanned and his eyes looked curious and warm for those few seconds before he moved on to sit at the table next to mine and his life moved on, the moment already forgotten, while for me, I relived it over and over all day and will probably dwell on it often in the years to come, hardly having noticed if he was short like people say, instead noticing his accent, how it sounded like my immigrant parents and how he looked like my brother, my father, my uncle, my grandfather.

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Wouldn't my former English teachers have had a field day with this?

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