Week 3 Prompts: scene-setting and dialogue

Prompts 9-12, Week 3. Don't forget scene in your rush to do dialogue--and don't forget new paragraph for each new speaker (not each new sentence from the same speaker!).... Post three on your blog.


9. Writers have to listen to themselves; writers ought to always be talking to themselves. Try a conversation between you and yourself. Sometimes arguments are fun.

10. Go to a crowded public place (not one of your classrooms, though) and be a fly on the wall. Just listen. Can you pick out conversations? Write down a little of what you hear, maybe as dialog (he said--, she said--)

11. Try an I-said, he/she said conversation. Set the scene somehow.

12. Go to a crowded public place (not one of your classrooms, though) and be a fly on the wall. Just watch. What's going on? Set that scene.