Write a scene in which you track the movement of a character moving against a crowd. (I mean this literally, not figuratively—a person going the wrong way on a one-way street, going up a down escalator, running into the fire when everybody else is running away from the fire).
Practice directing the reader’s attention now to the crowd’s movements, now to the individual character’s movements.
In Lecture 11 we looked at the parallels and contrasts between the Treaty Feast and the Feechie Feast. Imagine a third feast held by a different group or tribe with different values and resources.
Examples: a feast put on by a gang of robbers, a feast put on by ogres, a feast put on by rabbits
Write a scene in which a character’s perception of a person, place, or thing changes completely as he or she gets physically closer to it.
Start your exercise by showing what your character sees from a distance. Move your character closer to the person/place/thing (or vice versa). End your exercise by showing what your character sees from this closer vantage point.
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