EXERCISE: a collection of exercises and a random prompt. Not too moldy.

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Originally posted 13 Feb 2013

You say you want a moldy oldie exercise?

Right over here, there's a whole stack of them.

http://writercises.livejournal.com/

Which actually reminds me... I was tinkering with a prompt generator recently. Here's one of the results:

A random prompt? All right. How about a character who is in the middle of a marital reconciliation finds out that their teenager is dating someone unusual (your choice as to gender, age, race, occupation, or whatever!). To help stir things up, in the community and situation there are troublemakers out to cause trouble for such dating couples. What does the character do? Tell us about these starcrossed lovers and what's a parent to do?

Incidentally, the suggested genre is that of the testing plot, with a noble character tested to the extreme. There are at least three characters in that situation -- the parent, teenager, and the date. I wonder which one is the noble character?

Go ahead. How would you write that story?