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Exercise #657: Craft
Posted 2/5/16
I was at a play this week, and before the doors opened to let us early birds in, another family joined us standing in the cold. The man, impatient, knocked on the doors. The usher opened the door to speak to the man but didn’t let him in. He paced for just a bit, then knocked again.
“Stop it!” said the woman with him.
He turned to look at her and clearly said, “Husband. Not son.”
I got to thinking . . . Last time we introduced a group. This time, we need to show some of the relationship between characters (you likely did some of this in your last Craft SUB, as well). The interaction in those two outside the play venue was definitive for me, and I’d like to see some of that in SUBs to this exercise.
For this exercise, you may choose to continue your Exercise #652 scene, you may use a couple of those characters in a different scene or you may start fresh.
Show us a scene where two characters interact. You may use more, but that may fuzz the edges a bit. Give us an instant impression of these folks’ relationship. Your piece does not need to be a whole story.
Critiquers, along with a technical review you might answer these questions:
* Was this exercise helpful to you as a writer?
* Why or why not?
* Do you feel that you understand the relationship between the characters?
Word limit: 1200
Please use the subject line
SUB: Exercise #657/yourname
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