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Dialog Exercise #2

I want to work on dialog again, so this next exercise will be dialog-heavy. Rules:

  • Three sections: an in-depth conversation, a shorter section that deals with the main character’s thoughts on the previous conversation, and a new conversation with a third person and the main character later
  • Only two people conversing at a time
  • First person perspective
  • Very loosely based on a conversation I had recently with my roommate and thoughts that have been running through my head

Posted on August 30th, 2006 at 8:47 pm by Phil | Filed under Main | No Comments »

Gateway

This took around six hours from start to finish. I actually really like this one.

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Posted on August 24th, 2006 at 8:27 pm by Phil | Filed under Fiction | No Comments »

New exercise

In honor of the crime story book that my girlfriend gave me for my birthday, I want to try a light crime story. Requirements:

  • Third person
  • Main character is relatively calm and experienced
  • Main character is resorting to burglary in an affluent town

That’s all I’ve got.

Posted on August 18th, 2006 at 7:31 pm by Phil | Filed under Main | No Comments »

Untitled Party Exercise

This is a writing assignment that I assigned myself. It took maybe ten hours from start to finish. I feel as if I over-edited it, so I really don’t like large portions of it.

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Posted on August 15th, 2006 at 8:19 pm by Phil | Filed under Fiction | No Comments »

Practice makes perfect

A quote by Stephen King perfectly sums up my feelings:

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

Hell yes. So basically I’m going to try and churn out a lot of stuff to put on this site, and hope that over time I start to see improvement. I am setting up goals for myself, sort of like exercises in writing. The first one has a few rules:

  • Takes place at a party
  • Main character isn’t terribly comfortable in social situations like the aforementioned party
  • No overarching morals or points to the story other than simply telling the story of a shy guy going to a frat party

That’s what I have. Let’s see where it takes me.

Posted on August 1st, 2006 at 6:54 pm by Phil | Filed under Main | No Comments »