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An Assassin Finds Her True Calling… in Theater

An Assassin Finds Her True Calling… in Theater

Published by Scott on May 28, 2018

For the last stream’s exercise, we worked on dialogue.

Chat came up with a ton of suggestions for two characters to have a conversation or an argument, and after voting we ended up with this one: an assassin weary of their job and a mark pleading for his life.

We started by just writing the dialogue between the two characters and nothing else. Then we went in and made their personalities stronger and more distinct from each other. Finally we went in and added all the narration, body language, and dialogue tags needed to bring it all to life.

Here’s what we came up with:

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Cooking up a Story Where Every Sentence Has a “Food Word”

Cooking up a Story Where Every Sentence Has a “Food Word”

Published by Scott on April 16, 2018

For the last stream’s exercise, we tried a new exercise: writing a story where every sentence has a food word in it.

This was suggested by viewer iWriteGooder, and I liked it because of its unique restriction.

Food words could be anything from food items themselves (“bread”) to metaphors using food (“egg him on”) to cooking terms (“boiling”), the only exception being puns (no “he tried to catch-up” or “won’t you lettuce try?” allowed).

As usual, chat voted for the opening sentences and then we went wild. Here’s what we came up with:

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