EXERCISE: Tell Me About My Father
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writercisesOriginal Posting March 9, 2017
On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami changed quite a few lives forever. One of those was a four-year-old boy whose father died that day. He does not remember his father. He has grown up with his mother, and an older man who has taken several of the quasi-orphans in that area under his wing. But... whenever the boy meets someone who knew his father, he has one simple request.
"Tell me about my father."
So, imagine that you are one of those people he asks. What do you tell him? Feel free to ponder what his father was really like versus what you are going to tell this youngster who is looking up at you, trustingly. His mother stands nearby, watching you, a bit anxiously. What do you say?
Write that scene. And the dialogue.
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On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami changed quite a few lives forever. One of those was a four-year-old boy whose father died that day. He does not remember his father. He has grown up with his mother, and an older man who has taken several of the quasi-orphans in that area under his wing. But... whenever the boy meets someone who knew his father, he has one simple request.
"Tell me about my father."
So, imagine that you are one of those people he asks. What do you tell him? Feel free to ponder what his father was really like versus what you are going to tell this youngster who is looking up at you, trustingly. His mother stands nearby, watching you, a bit anxiously. What do you say?
Write that scene. And the dialogue.
tink