Jackie found a continuing education class called "creative writing:Sci Fi/fantasy" and signed me up. It meets 6 Tuesdays in a row for 3 hours. The instructor's name is Cat Rambo and we had our first session last week.
A couple things:
1) It was unusual for me, but I was the only person in the room with a job
2) I was the only student who did not use the character of "dungeon-master" in a particular exercise.
In class, we had a list of characters, and a list of conflicts....
Students must pick two characters and one conflict and then in a 5-minute timed exercise write a story. Then we all read our stories out loud. Next week we are to have these stories polished up.
Inexplicably, I chose the following:
* A chess player
* An omniscient entity
* A terminal illness.
And now I'm stuck with these.
Although the title of any story involving these three things practically writes itself: "checkmate, I know you are dying" We'll see what happens from there. Suggestions welcome.
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My first thoughts after reading those 3 items....
Chess player is playing a game of chess with the entity. However, the chess player is getting really pissed off because the entity knows all of his moves before he makes him. Chess player has heart disease and gets so worked up over this chess match that he keels over from a heart attack. Omniscient entity now reveals himself to be the Grim Reaper. He then takes the chess player's soul to wherever he takes them while muttering under his breath, "all in a day's work". The end. (Lisa)
Lisa, Unfortunately you have missed my deadline! But you are not too late to help me with the first three paragraphs of a short story involving a crashed train.
If you would like to read my original work of fiction, proceed to my other blog - http://yoshirap.blogspot.com
Thanks for posting your story on Yoshirap. That was a good read! Nice work throwing in the time-line conundrum.... very sci-fi-ish.
Your class sounds like a lot of fun. However, the thought of reading your own work out loud to the class would just terrify me. You are a brave man!
As far as a story about a train crash, I'm drawing a blank. Actually, I did have a dumb thought about a worldwide campaign to try and get everyone to jump at exactly the same moment. People thought that nothing would happen, but for some reason, the earth did actually shake a tiny bit which caused this one train to fall off of a very high old wooden train trestle. See... not very sci-fi-ish. I'm sure your train crash story will be most spectacular.
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