Fiction Workshop - Session Three Exercise

The Seeds of Story

This exercise comes from the OpenMIT course from Shariann Lewitt.

Think about an event early in your life that is still powerful for you – that made you cry, or afraid, or angry, or triumphant with revenge. Sketch it out – focus on the emotional power. Now – make it fiction. Change something. Change character, change ages, change place, gender – see how this changes the center of the story.

Here is the short little scene that came out of doing this exercise :)