EXERCISE: A walk down the street!
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writercises Original Posting 5/3/2020
Here you go. This is kind of a good exercise for staying home, and still going out!Start by opening up Google Maps. Pick a town or some other place you have never been, that sounds interesting. Heck, pull up a map of a country, click on a place, then expand it! See what you have chosen.Now, get it large enough, and then pick up the little man and drop him in a street. Boom! Look around, see what's there! And take a walk down the street.You may want to have a notebook open, or a google doc, and take some notes as you stroll along. Hah! You can see the post office from that corner? Whoops, there's a tree over there. Don't forget to turn around and look at what you see!Then go ahead and write up that stroll, or maybe that drive. Think about your character, out for a walk in that strange town, city, wherever, and seeing... well, what did they see? What makes this walk special, this place something they remember and other people will recognize?There you go. Simple, right? Virtual trips, via Google maps, with the added bonus that you get to practice writing up a travel scene. Or you could even put a fight, a chase, some action right there!I hope you enjoy your trip!?Write!
Here you go. This is kind of a good exercise for staying home, and still going out!Start by opening up Google Maps. Pick a town or some other place you have never been, that sounds interesting. Heck, pull up a map of a country, click on a place, then expand it! See what you have chosen.Now, get it large enough, and then pick up the little man and drop him in a street. Boom! Look around, see what's there! And take a walk down the street.You may want to have a notebook open, or a google doc, and take some notes as you stroll along. Hah! You can see the post office from that corner? Whoops, there's a tree over there. Don't forget to turn around and look at what you see!Then go ahead and write up that stroll, or maybe that drive. Think about your character, out for a walk in that strange town, city, wherever, and seeing... well, what did they see? What makes this walk special, this place something they remember and other people will recognize?There you go. Simple, right? Virtual trips, via Google maps, with the added bonus that you get to practice writing up a travel scene. Or you could even put a fight, a chase, some action right there!I hope you enjoy your trip!?Write!