The prompt for this week’s Monday Writers in the Grove Workshop was:
Bystanders are sometimes more than passive, they can be perpetrators, people who inject themselves into the story. Write a short piece on how a bystander moves from outside of the event to inside.
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The prompt today focuses on character development.
Put yourself into a character and isolate the characters in and around you from your character.
What would you do if you had no resources?
Put your character at risk.
Make yourself feel like a stranger.
The prompt this week was:
Saying fine when you’re not.
Set yourself a scenario where your characters are in a stressful or bad situation and they have to say that they are fine when they aren’t. They have to be brave. Consider situations of bullying when a child or adult is asked but compelled to respond with “I’m fine” as some form of protection or defense.
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