This Week's Practice Exercise~
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Exercise: In 400 words or less, let someone face a conflict against God or gods or fate or luck. Show what forces are at play, and how the events unfold.
A key element in fiction, as in life, is conflict. Conflict creates tension, and introduces challenges a character must overcome.
For this exercise, we'll focus on "person versus a 'higher power' of your choice. Your character may rail against God, battle bad luck, or struggle with any other force that could affect his life.
Your conflict may take on the epic proportions of the Biblical Job or mythical Prometheus, or be as simple as Joe Shmoe's trying to get a job done while being thwarted at every turn.
Show us the character as conflict builds. Let us see her reactions and feel her emotions as you build a sequence of events that focus on the conflict the character faces. Does she rise above it?
That's up to you.
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These exercises were written by IWW members and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its members. You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that you found them at the Internet Writers Workshop.
Exercise: In 400 words or less, let someone face a conflict against God or gods or fate or luck. Show what forces are at play, and how the events unfold.
A key element in fiction, as in life, is conflict. Conflict creates tension, and introduces challenges a character must overcome.
For this exercise, we'll focus on "person versus a 'higher power' of your choice. Your character may rail against God, battle bad luck, or struggle with any other force that could affect his life.
Your conflict may take on the epic proportions of the Biblical Job or mythical Prometheus, or be as simple as Joe Shmoe's trying to get a job done while being thwarted at every turn.
Show us the character as conflict builds. Let us see her reactions and feel her emotions as you build a sequence of events that focus on the conflict the character faces. Does she rise above it?
That's up to you.
~~~~~
These exercises were written by IWW members and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its members. You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that you found them at the Internet Writers Workshop.
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