EXERCISE: The Odd Couple
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writercisesOriginal Posting April 25, 2016
Sorry about the quiet. Unfortunately, I've been traveling and then we moved, and network access has been limited. After moving, in fact, we've spent a week without telephone or network! It's interesting to unplug, but it does make you appreciate the kind of access that we tend to take for granted. Fair warning, we're supposed to get telephone and network service again tomorrow!
Many of you probably remember the TV show, with the slob and the neat freak trying to live together? That dynamic of a mismatched pair is a good one to consider when you're setting up characters for your story. Perhaps not quite so obviously, but having people who have some kind of a built-in conflict -- political beliefs, religious beliefs, the artist and the cold rationalist, even Jack Spratt who could eat no fat and his wife who could eat no lean -- they all can provide a fun kind of interaction in your story.
So, take a character, then consider what traits could be reversed or inverted in some way, and what happens to your story when the dynamic duo at the heart of it can't stand each other!
Okay? Write!
tink
Sorry about the quiet. Unfortunately, I've been traveling and then we moved, and network access has been limited. After moving, in fact, we've spent a week without telephone or network! It's interesting to unplug, but it does make you appreciate the kind of access that we tend to take for granted. Fair warning, we're supposed to get telephone and network service again tomorrow!
Many of you probably remember the TV show, with the slob and the neat freak trying to live together? That dynamic of a mismatched pair is a good one to consider when you're setting up characters for your story. Perhaps not quite so obviously, but having people who have some kind of a built-in conflict -- political beliefs, religious beliefs, the artist and the cold rationalist, even Jack Spratt who could eat no fat and his wife who could eat no lean -- they all can provide a fun kind of interaction in your story.
So, take a character, then consider what traits could be reversed or inverted in some way, and what happens to your story when the dynamic duo at the heart of it can't stand each other!
Okay? Write!
tink
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