Many writers take influence from current affairs and the news. I am going to introduce you to a simple task to generate characters from a news story. Your starting point needs to be choosing an event in the news that interests you.
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Write a scene between two characters where one of the characters (Instructor) is trying to teach the other (Instruct-ee) how to do a simple everyday task.
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Write a scene that starts between two characters where one of the characters wants to share a secret about a third character – who currently is not on stage.
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Today’s writing task will involve writing an argument between two characters. Start by writing numbers down the left-hand side of your page. Firstly, one to ten and the nine back to one. (See below.)
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The final four tasks of this series will focus on writing short pieces of dialogue. I will set up a scenario or rule for you to follow. Each day you will write a short scene and it might give you something to think about or could be the starting point of a longer play.
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