That sense of “playing along” was definitely true for me! I think the exercise maybe nudged me into rising action/escalation/plot in general much sooner than usual mostly because I was always so aware of how many words I had already spent and how few I had left ahead of me to assemble the story elements I still needed. The constraint of …
That sense of “playing along” was definitely true for me! I think the exercise maybe nudged me into rising action/escalation/plot in general much sooner than usual mostly because I was always so aware of how many words I had already spent and how few I had left ahead of me to assemble the story elements I still needed. The constraint of “all 200 words together have to make A Story” was so helpful in keeping me/my characters moving forward — simply because the story was inherently charging forward from the first sentence, and there was no room or time to go in any other direction (including holding still!)
That sense of “playing along” was definitely true for me! I think the exercise maybe nudged me into rising action/escalation/plot in general much sooner than usual mostly because I was always so aware of how many words I had already spent and how few I had left ahead of me to assemble the story elements I still needed. The constraint of “all 200 words together have to make A Story” was so helpful in keeping me/my characters moving forward — simply because the story was inherently charging forward from the first sentence, and there was no room or time to go in any other direction (including holding still!)