EXERCISE: Who Was In That Car?
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writercisesoriginal posting: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:25:45 -0400
Okay, a quick scene for you to fill in, as you please.
On the way to work this morning, I walked past several cars stopped at a stoplight. In about the fourth car back, a man sat. He was the driver, with one hand out the open window waving a cigarette. His face seemed agitated, perhaps angry, perhaps upset.
He was the only person in the car.
And he was talking loudly, perhaps even yelling! Looking down and in, as if the radio or perhaps the gear shift was somehow the focus of his emotion, he was talking away.
I could see his mouth working, quite obviously forming words. Given the background noise at that intersection, I couldn't hear what he was saying, nor could I tell who he was talking to. Maybe the radio, maybe the 6 foot rabbit sitting invisibly beside him, perhaps the fairy princess sitting on the floor on the passenger side? How about the alien from planet Gurk reposing on the floor?
Or the brother who died 30 years ago?
The boss he would face in an hour?
Who do you think he was talking to? And what was he saying?
Okay? So here's your job -- take that person. Show us where they have come from, why they are upset, and what happens next!
Write?
Okay, a quick scene for you to fill in, as you please.
On the way to work this morning, I walked past several cars stopped at a stoplight. In about the fourth car back, a man sat. He was the driver, with one hand out the open window waving a cigarette. His face seemed agitated, perhaps angry, perhaps upset.
He was the only person in the car.
And he was talking loudly, perhaps even yelling! Looking down and in, as if the radio or perhaps the gear shift was somehow the focus of his emotion, he was talking away.
I could see his mouth working, quite obviously forming words. Given the background noise at that intersection, I couldn't hear what he was saying, nor could I tell who he was talking to. Maybe the radio, maybe the 6 foot rabbit sitting invisibly beside him, perhaps the fairy princess sitting on the floor on the passenger side? How about the alien from planet Gurk reposing on the floor?
Or the brother who died 30 years ago?
The boss he would face in an hour?
Who do you think he was talking to? And what was he saying?
Okay? So here's your job -- take that person. Show us where they have come from, why they are upset, and what happens next!
Write?
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