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Writing Exercise #2 (Sources of Fiction)
Take one intense emotion you've experienced—envy, fear, greed—and give it to a fictional character. Make sure the character isn't you; just the emotion.
Create a scene based on this and involve another person as the antagonist.
Write two pages.
The character should come out acting quite different from you (mannerisms/traits), but the emotional conflict will be similar to yours.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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