We are charging past the StoryADay halfway point and full steam ahead writers! I hope you had fun writing a list story yesterday. “My Day in Band Names,” is a loose accounting of my day, told through band names I thought of as I went about my day. Not exactly fiction, but a technique I could use equally to describe a fictional character’s day.
Today’s prompt asks us to exercise two important skills: (1) revealing a story through conversation and (2) giving each speaker a unique and recognizable voice. Try experimenting with characters whose voices are unlike your own.
Day 16 Prompt: “Write a Story completely in dialogue.” The reader should be able to keep the speakers straight without dialogue attributions (e.g., “he said,” “she said,” “they exclaimed”).