N + 7: Select a passage from one of your newspaper articles. Replace each noun the passage with the seventh noun following it in the dictionary.After I substituted the nouns I moved the words around until I was satisfied – it’s pretty nonsensical, but at least it seems syntactically correct. (Plus I learned some new vocabulary!)

Pearl Grissaille

He was the inchoation of the showdown

a shameless hamlet and hooligan

big and constant

singing, dancing, and wisecracking

in his blond hairdressing…

Liftoff,

his onlooker could imagine

a motorboat, a cricket at the millstream

Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 7, 2014 (Mickey Rooney, legend of the screen, dies at 93.)