EXERCISE: Just a starter...

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Original Posting May 25, 2016

Pull gently on the rope, and...

Roll your dice and pick one of the following:

1. Policeman
2. Priest
3. Psychologist
4. Ship's captain
5. Homeless vagabond
6. Pick your own role

Then add that person to the following starting line:

The (insert role here) asked, "Why did you drown your robots?"

Now, what does the other character answer? And then what happens?

Go ahead. Why did your character drown his or her robots? What do they answer when asked? And how does it play out?

Write that scene!

[This exercise suggested by a scrap of dialogue in Howard Tayler's Schlock Mercenary today, for those who wonder.]

Hear the motors cranking up and starting to rumble?

Now write!
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