Take a couple sentences, or paragraph from your favorite book or writer and then re-write it using only words of one syllable. Proper nouns can have several syllables but that is the only exception. Also note where the original work is from. This was from a writing exercise I had.
Here is mine from THE WHISPERERS by Robert Nicolson.
This morning, her feet being wet, Mrs. Ross re-stricted her choice to the journals nearest to the hot-water pipes. But it didn't matter: she read anything, abstracting from any mass of material something, no matter how little - a name, a misconceptions, perhaps no more than a word - for service in some later fantasy. Once indeed, fascinated by what the characters suggested, she spent a whole forenoon turning over the pages of a thick quarterly printered entirely in Greek.
My rewrite:
Wet feet kept Mrs. Ross to choose from the books near the pipes. It did not have to be a great work she would read most things. After a read, she would start a dream with a word, or phrase from an item she read. Once she took on the soul of an idol she read of and spent the morn in the deep of a Greek brief.
Here is mine from THE WHISPERERS by Robert Nicolson.
This morning, her feet being wet, Mrs. Ross re-stricted her choice to the journals nearest to the hot-water pipes. But it didn't matter: she read anything, abstracting from any mass of material something, no matter how little - a name, a misconceptions, perhaps no more than a word - for service in some later fantasy. Once indeed, fascinated by what the characters suggested, she spent a whole forenoon turning over the pages of a thick quarterly printered entirely in Greek.
My rewrite:
Wet feet kept Mrs. Ross to choose from the books near the pipes. It did not have to be a great work she would read most things. After a read, she would start a dream with a word, or phrase from an item she read. Once she took on the soul of an idol she read of and spent the morn in the deep of a Greek brief.
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