EXERCISE: Fifteen Quotes makes a story?
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writercisesOriginal posting Sept. 27, 2017
Okay. Here's the thing. We've got the Halloweenie tales coming up, and I was just listening to Writing Excuses where someone mentioned the idea that you structure a short story around beginning, middle, and end. So…
Five quotes for a beginning? Random quotes about fear from www.quotationspage.com...
1. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain
2. You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer
3. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. Cyril Connoly
4. You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Amy Tan
5. Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. Marilyn Ferguson
All right? Pick one of those, and use it as the seed, the inspiration, for your beginning. The hook that pulls the reader into your story. Add character, setting, and other details for your very own stone soup, okay?
Five quotes for the middle! Random quotes about terror...
1. If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. Ausonius
2. Greater is our terror of the unknown. Titus Livius
3. No man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow
4. I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild then wait in terror at the slaughterhouse. Craig Volk
5. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt
And that could keep you stirring the pot for a while? Pick one of those, and feel free to mix up your middle. Try-fail, try-fail, try-fail! Make the story boil...
Five quotes for the end. What the heck, let's check on random quotes about horror. That is the fancy dish for Halloween, right?
1. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Elinor Roosevelt
2. To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror. Jacques Bossuet
3. How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? Barry Lopez
4. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain under this made at the proximity of normal to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. Dr. Karl Menninger
5. The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. Anne Rice
There we go! Pick a quote, then contemplate that little thought about horror, and work out your ending. Go for it!
Now, put your beginning, middle, and ending together. Apply setting, characters, dialogue, plot, all that good stuff liberally. And...
Dingdong! We have a story. YAY!
tink
Okay. Here's the thing. We've got the Halloweenie tales coming up, and I was just listening to Writing Excuses where someone mentioned the idea that you structure a short story around beginning, middle, and end. So…
Five quotes for a beginning? Random quotes about fear from www.quotationspage.com...
1. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain
2. You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer
3. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. Cyril Connoly
4. You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Amy Tan
5. Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. Marilyn Ferguson
All right? Pick one of those, and use it as the seed, the inspiration, for your beginning. The hook that pulls the reader into your story. Add character, setting, and other details for your very own stone soup, okay?
Five quotes for the middle! Random quotes about terror...
1. If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. Ausonius
2. Greater is our terror of the unknown. Titus Livius
3. No man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow
4. I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild then wait in terror at the slaughterhouse. Craig Volk
5. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt
And that could keep you stirring the pot for a while? Pick one of those, and feel free to mix up your middle. Try-fail, try-fail, try-fail! Make the story boil...
Five quotes for the end. What the heck, let's check on random quotes about horror. That is the fancy dish for Halloween, right?
1. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Elinor Roosevelt
2. To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror. Jacques Bossuet
3. How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? Barry Lopez
4. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain under this made at the proximity of normal to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. Dr. Karl Menninger
5. The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. Anne Rice
There we go! Pick a quote, then contemplate that little thought about horror, and work out your ending. Go for it!
Now, put your beginning, middle, and ending together. Apply setting, characters, dialogue, plot, all that good stuff liberally. And...
Dingdong! We have a story. YAY!
tink