Hi storytellers! After focusing in on dialogue on Day 16, now we’re going to zoom in even tighter, on just one side of a conversation. Here’s your daily prompt.
Day 18 Prompt: “Write a story today in which the reader only hears one side of the conversation. This could be a telephone conversation, a text conversation, a series of social media updates, a series of letters, whatever.”
Julie at StoryADay gives a couple of good examples: the old Bob Newhart “telephone” comedy routines, and Neil Gaiman’s story “Orange,” which unfolds as answers to a series of police interrogation questions that are not a part of the story. For further inspiration, simply look around. Instead of giving that rude guy speaking loudly into a cell phone on your morning commute the evil eye, you just might grab a notebook and thank him.