In our February writing task, we were instructed to blend together the dialogue exercise and the third person prose exercise into a full scene or story. I didn't come into this exercise with a plan as to how to combine these two pieces, a side effect of primarily writing from a single character perspective in first person point of view. So in the end this particular task was unexpectedly hard.
Not only did Cat give us a deadline, Wattpad apparently didn't notify me she'd posted the new exercise until the seventh, and my real life had very recently become very real. (These aren't excuses, just roadblocks and me needing a bit of a vent.) I went to research different ways an author may go about switching the point of view. In a novel, I find myself favoring changing pov at the start of a chapter when necessary, but what I've written so far is certainly not even the start of a novel. I settled for spacing and breaks between prose and dialogue.
Admittedly, I'm not fully satisfied with what I've put together for this exercise. I will probably go back and mull trying other ways to blend the prose and dialogue, probably after the feedback portion of the exercises. I also need to put more research into extra senses beyond the five most common.
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FreedomToTheReaders' Exercises for Cat's Writing Bootcamp
LosoweThis will be my area for completing and receiving feedback on the exercises Cat sets out for us to complete. I'd like to Catrina Burgess for putting together this boot camp, my goal is to use it to become a better writer overall for my own work and...
