The Place For My Writers Notes

First posted 24 May 2007

Hi, ho.

Over on Baen's Bar, one of the authors tossed out the following exercise as a primer. Simple, really.

1. Invent a character
2. This character finds and calls a phone number (I believe their exercise specified that the number was found on a wall in a bar, but I'll let you put the number wherever you like. I would recommend making it somewhat unusual, such as a number on the wall, perhaps in a personal ad, or whatever :-)
3. Write it up. Put us in the scene, make that phone call, and then? What happens? Who answers, what do they want, where do we go next?

Go ahead. Wrong number, right number but wrong person, or whatever you like.

Write!