I started off thinking mundane but surprising - so for 1 I said "small-town Montana", because Montana is so amazingly homogenously white that no one would ever guess that for her. None of the options - including mine - really grabbed me for that one, though, upon reread.
4 was the hardest for me - I just could not think of a catchphrase. I really like "I can fix that," and wish I had come up with it! (That one was not mine.)
5 I knew I had to explain why she was apparently topless, and went for "the human bonfire" as a plausible explanation. I like "What friends?" and "lacking in dress sense" better than that, though, since they seem to open more possibilities for writing about Ms. 5.
6 I wanted something clever - at least as clever as "the human bonfire" - and none of the book titles I could think of were satisfactory. I have no idea how I came up with "the one my daughter wrote before disappearing," except that that's the one, of all ten, that I'm most pleased with. I wish I could say I had a story in mind beyond just that!
7 was tough, and finally I decided that picking a color would be too much of a dead-end; the idea that the little girl is seeing beyond the normal visual spectrum made me giggle, so I went with "ultraviolet".
For 9 I wanted to go for the "very unexpected" again, like with 1, and came up with "Human Encyclopedia". The hardest part was getting an answer that was no more than 10 words, because I knew what I wanted to get across but wasn't sure how to do so and still comply with the length restriction.
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4 was the hardest for me - I just could not think of a catchphrase. I really like "I can fix that," and wish I had come up with it! (That one was not mine.)
5 I knew I had to explain why she was apparently topless, and went for "the human bonfire" as a plausible explanation. I like "What friends?" and "lacking in dress sense" better than that, though, since they seem to open more possibilities for writing about Ms. 5.
6 I wanted something clever - at least as clever as "the human bonfire" - and none of the book titles I could think of were satisfactory. I have no idea how I came up with "the one my daughter wrote before disappearing," except that that's the one, of all ten, that I'm most pleased with. I wish I could say I had a story in mind beyond just that!
7 was tough, and finally I decided that picking a color would be too much of a dead-end; the idea that the little girl is seeing beyond the normal visual spectrum made me giggle, so I went with "ultraviolet".
For 9 I wanted to go for the "very unexpected" again, like with 1, and came up with "Human Encyclopedia". The hardest part was getting an answer that was no more than 10 words, because I knew what I wanted to get across but wasn't sure how to do so and still comply with the length restriction.