Per our class discussion today, here are some potential scenarios for your scene. Please choose one or create something else that connects to our discussion about characters and their agendas. If it is possible to connect your dialogue exercise from Monday to this, please do. Remember, all writing exercise should be helping you move toward your next short story...
NOTE! These are only suggestions to get your imagination going. If you like one of them, that’s fine. If you don’t like any and have another idea, that’s fine too.
1. An engagement party. The mother of the groom-to-be is talking to the brother of the bride.
2. A grandchild has come over to help the grandparent pack up the apartment/house where the grandparent has lived for many years. The grandparent is moving far away.
3. Two roommates cooking dinner. (Their conflict/agendas could be about anything, not the dinner at all.)
4. Two strangers in a company waiting area are both interviewing for the same job (or believe they are.)
5. Two acquaintances run into each other (at a party, in the library, doing laundry.) They have only been casual acquaintances so far, but one wants to ask the other for a date.
6. A landlord/landlady telling a tenant that he/she must move.
7. A dating couple. One has just received his/her acceptance into the best graduate program in the country, but it is far away.
8. A young child wants an expensive toy.
9. Two friends are hosting a party together. During the party, one of the hosts sees something that is wrong or unsettling (or something that could be taken as wrong or unsettling but may be ambiguous) done to the other host’s guests.
10. Two old friends. One owes the other a significant amount of money.
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