Wrestling with the bear

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Quarantine Project Day 13

 

Something is wanting to me to tell too much of this story through dialogue. Not sure what it is.  The characters have an urgency to talk to each other, that's for sure and that's because they have a lot of catching up and/or issues with each other.   I'm very wary of letting them reminisce.

 

Note bien: always beware the reminiscent tendency, especially in dialogue.

 

"Do you remember when we were young?"

"Oh yes, those were the days.'

'Why, I would compose a poem, swim the Hellespont, wrestle with a bear and write a further 6,000 words.  And all before breakfast."

"Yes, and all before breakfast," he sighed.

 

Well if it was so good why aren't you telling the story about then instead of now?

 

By the standards of yesteryear not great, clearly, but by today's lights I'll take that 2302 words I've been offered.

 

(For previous blogs in the Quarantine Project click on "achives")

 

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