Your main character is someone ten years older than you.
Don’t sentimentalize. Don’t overdramatize his/her age. Just know the character is ten years older than you are.
The world is a real world. The person is outdoors, on foot.
Comes to a family outing, picnic, gathering, etc, not his own. Different nationality, race, gender, or identity…
Joins to some degree, in some way, however slight or complete…watching or entering…
A magical or quasi-magical event occurs, manifests, suggests itself, however magical or common it might be…could even be slight-of-hand, or illusion…
Don’t forget environmental descriptions—weather, sun, moon, stars, wind, breeze, season, etc…
An animal and a plant should appear somewhere.
Include a glove or a sock somewhere.
Don’t forget the senses….
Length: 3-5 pages...
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About Me
- Bob
- I write short stories and essays. I have published well over one hundred stories, essays, and flash fictions or nonfictions in magazines or anthologies, as well as a novel, Jack's Universe, three collections of stories, Private Acts, Killers & Others, and Not a Jot or a Tittle, and two chapbooks of flash fiction, Shutterbug and Dragon Box. I grew up in a military family, so I'm not from anywhere in particular except probably Akron, where I've lived for forty years. Before I came here, I never lived anywhere longer than three years.
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