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IWW
Practice-W Exercise Archives
Exercise: Generation Gap
These exercises were written
by IWW members
and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its
members.
You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that
you found
them at the Internet Writers Workshop
(http://www.internetwritingworkshop.org/).
Prepared
by: Carter Jefferson
Posted on: April 1, 2007
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Posted on: December 15, 2019
Posted on: November 27, 2022
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Exercise: In 400 words or less, write a scene involving two characters
related to one another by birth or marriage, one more than 75 years old, the other at least 25 years younger.
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The characters may be almost anyone: mother and daughter,
grandfather and granddaughter, first cousins or siblings, uncle and nephew, even wife and husband. Don't tell us their ages--let them show us.
The setting may be a family residence, a nursing home, a golf
course, a kitchen, a prison, anywhere. They may be meeting after a long separation, or they may live together and associate with each other daily. See if you can give us an idea of their previous attitudes toward each other--loving, hostile, or something
else--and explore the emotions generated during this meeting.
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Exercise: In 400 words or less, write a scene involving two characters
related to one another by birth or marriage, one more than 75 years old, the other at least 25 years younger.
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Critique: Do the characters ring true? Does their dialogue
seem lifelike? Is the scene properly set? Consider all aspects of the writing.
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Rhéal Nadeau and
the administrators of the Internet Writing Workshop.
Modified by Gayle Surrette.
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