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GET THE WRITE IDEA

Get the write idea

Explore how characters relate to each other in these creative writing exercises with the theme of relationships and interactions

SHELTER

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Start a new piece of writing with two people taking shelter together.

Who are the people, and what are their circumstances? Give them names and an outline identity.

Do they know each other, or not? Establish their relationship. What are they sheltering from? Establish the conditions. What are they sheltering in? Establish the setting.

What happens? Set out the next three plot points in a piece of narrative that begins just after the characters have taken shelter.

MEAN

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