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use only the ten hundred most common words

When I feel worried I like to listen to music. The music is often happy or exciting and never has weird thoughts of people with pick up cars. Sometimes I listen to soft music because the beats are safe and calming. If I’m feeling happier I like to listen to rock or pop with simple words that paint life in cute ways. Music has an important place in my heart.

I used the Up-Goer Five Text Editor to write this short essay about what I love about music. Basically I had to pick less exciting words to describe more exciting things. I started by typing it on something separate and then pasting it to edit. #3stars Here’s what I started with:

When I feel stressed, I like to listen to music. The music is often upbeat or rhythmic and never involves country. Sometimes I listen to Beach House because their beats are smooth and calming. If I’m feeling more enthused I like to listen to Indie Rock with simple lyrics that sugar coat life in cute ways.

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Every summer I fly home to work and make some money so I can continue with school. I work in a store that has things for things you do outside. Like take care of roses or build things. It is a small store, with about ten people working there. I am the big man’s right hand, so I do paper work too and not just put things up for people to buy. We have about 400 paying people every day but probably 1400 people who enter the store every day. It’s not a fun job, but it will do for now.

So this was really hard to do. I wrote a short text about my job and what I do every summer when I fly home, then I went to http://splasho.com/upgoer5/ and used the editor to re-write my text only using the top most common 1000 words. It was incredibly hard and it sounds like a first grader wrote it. Oh well.

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Submitted by: Martha

Pick a topic that you can write about. It can be anythign: a short bio, a description of a job you do, a short story about something that happened to you. Then go to http://splasho.com/upgoer5/ and use the editor to write/re-write your text only using the top most common 1000 words. The editor will tell you when you violate the rules.

The challenge (and editor) are based upon this xkcd comic.