Wordplay Exercise

I thought I would share a wordplay exercise I use from time to time.  I use this exercise whenever I am looking for a connection of an organic or internal sense.  I only use logical rationale for the composition of each new word.  I typically begin with a single word, in this case I started with relate.  From there I start moving as far as I can without changing the "DNA" of the initial word.  Once I run out of room, no more prefixes, suffixes etc.. I start to see if I can break a word into two or more separate words that still make sense as one when put together.  In this case I took Relate and made it into Real late, Real elate and so forth, playing around with it for a while while trying to remain as true to the original composition of the starter word as possible.  Then when I feel I'm done I look at all the changes I made and kind of mark down a VS. system, in this case it turned out to be Real Vs. Reel.  I've added two more, well one more and the last one is basically an offshoot of the second exercise, you'll see when you scroll down that far.  

Once the exercise is complete I usually am able to find something I can use creatively.  Most of the time it's used for poetical purposes but I have found numerous ideas for sketches and designs in the past and paintings more recently.  If nothing comes from it, well, I still find it a pretty fun game to play, but I'm like that though, I love wordplay and word games in general.  Have fun with it, you never know what will strike you and in what way it could:)

Relate

Relating

Relation

Relations

Relationship

Relationships

Real elations

Real elation

Really elate

Reel elation

Reel elations

Reel elate

Re-elate

Reel elating

Real elating

Real late

Reel late

Real Vs. Reel

Forage

Foraging

Forager

Foragers

For agers

For ager

For aging

For age

For edge

For edging

For edger

Fore edger

Forest

Foresting

Forester

For rest

For resting

For fester

For arrest

For arresting

Four rest

Four resting

Four arrest

Four arresting

For arrester

Fore arrester

Fore arrest

For Vs. Fore Vs. Four