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Exercise #552: Craft
Posted 1/3/14
Time for the next step in our journey, where we talk about the five Cs that can help you self-check your story for marketability. Every story - to be a complete tale - needs the five Cs.
The fourth C is Continuity.
If you’ve done the SUBs for the first three Cs, you likely have a character that’s pretty well-defined but the “world” around him/her/it is a bit disjointed. This exercise is your chance to bring them all together and weed out the items that didn’t work for you or don’t match between sections.
The reader, you hope, is paying attention to your story. They know if your character has blue eyes if you told them so in chapter one. If another character admires your protagonist’s deep brown eyes in chapter eleven, you’ve lost your reader. Keep your piece consistent throughout. Character details, setting, conflict; these things all need a continuity check.
For this exercise, review your work from Exercise #539, Exercise #543 and Exercise #548. Rewrite them all together into one solid piece that shows us your character, your climate (setting), and the conflict. Correct things that were bugging you and add details where you like.
Do not resolve your conflict.
Please note the larger word limit, as you’re taking three pieces which were allowed 1200 words each and combining them into one story. You may have to do some cutting.
Critiquers, along with the usual technical critique, you might answer these questions:
* Was the piece consistent throughout? Why or why not?
* Was this piece helpful to you as a writer? Why or why not?
Word limit: 2000
Please use the subject line
SUB: Exercise #552/yourname
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