Online Writing - Steering the Craft, Exercise 9 Part 2

We are working our way through the excellent writing exercises in Ursula K LeGuin's "Steering the Craft". The exercise is below, but she provides so much more in the book - do what you can to locate the book at the library, on alibris.com or Amazon, etc.

This month is Exercise 9, Part Two: Being the Stranger
Write a narrative of 200-600 words, a scene involving at least two people and some kind of action or event. Use a single viewpoint character, in either first person or limited third person, who si involved in the event. Give us the character's thougths and feeligns in their own words. Here's the key: the viewpoint character, real or invented, is to be somebody you dislike, or disapprove of, or hate, or feel to be extremely different from yourself. The sitaution might be a quarrel between neighbors, or a relative's visit, or somebody acting weird at the checkout counter — whatever will show the viewpoint character doing what that person does, thinking about what that person thinks.

Have fun with it and we will see you in the new year!