Both of us are continually working to hone our storytelling skills. As part of that work, we made our way through the exercises in The Short Story Writer’s Companion by Tom Bailey. The first exercise was to write a list of attributes about a character. Nothing specific, just a list of random facts such as shoe size and favorite ice cream. Then we were to write a scene where that character has a motivation—in this case, heading out for a blind date—and include as many of those details as possible while still writing an engaging scene. We wrote these a couple years ago originally, so we revised them and now this is our critique of each other's work. More to come in this series! There are a fair number of exercises, and they were very useful.
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