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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Mar 20 04, 13:59

Hi all.

It's time for another short story exercise and here is the idea:

You are a cat in the window of a ____? (school, house, restaurant, apartment building, car) - you decide.

Become the cat. What do you hear?

Now, the exercise is NOT to write about the cat, but to write about the sounds the cat hears. Is it day or night? Stormy or still? Summer or Fall? Are there other creatures roaming about? You get the idea.

Who or what are the sounds being made by? Are they mechanical, natural, by people? Use the environment of the window setting and add bugs, people, winds, clocks, footsteps, anything to fill your mind of what you see and write it for us here in a story.

Experiment with expressive verbs, make use of figurative language and personify your piece.

Good luck!

~Mosaic Musings Staff