Good morning, another day of writing for the Writing Challenge. I hope yours is going well and you are sticking with the schedule you created. It’s always that first week of any new schedule I find the most difficult. It is where I put something on the calendar but it hasn’t yet become habit so I have to check to make sure it gets done. Soon the feeling will fade and it will simply be a part of my schedule but in the beginning, remembering I put it there is hard for me.
But whatever your schedule, we also have a writing exercise. As I mentioned yesterday, these early ones are focused more on getting inside the minds of your characters. Feel free to use this for your protagonist, a side character, or something completely different.
Task #43: Writing Exercise: Pick a character (or create one) Once you have the character in your mind think about that character’s first memory. It can be crystal clear, hazy with scent more than sight playing a role, it could even be the day they woke up in a hospital room with amnesia. Whatever the scene you create think about the impact it has on your character. Give it impact on your character, if only for the purpose of this exercise. Is he a stone cold assassin who fumbled a kill because the mark wore a perfume that reminded him of being hugged by his mom? Does your character have an aversion to someone because of a long buried association? And remember even if this is a character in something you are writing about currently, this piece does not have to go into the story. It is just designed for you as the writer. Your character may never realize why he has an immediate dislike of someone, even if you know. So take a breath, give it a think and write down the character’s first memory and a bit about how it has impacted them eve if they don’t know it.
Happy Writing.
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