Find three passages of dialogue in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Count the words outside the quotation marks. How do those words affect the pace of the scene? Also pay attention to what is happening in those words outside the quotation marks. Do they depict actions? Thoughts? Are they descriptive? Do different kinds of outside-the-quotation-marks content affect the pace of the scene differently?
Depict a crowded scene (a sporting event, a park, a city sidewalk, a school lunchroom, etc.). Write as descriptively as you can, but with one stipulation: You can’t use adjectives or adverbs. Make nouns and verbs carry the freight.
Think of one of your favorite stories. How does the desire-choice-consequence play out in that story?
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