Part 2 of the 3 Object Challenge
it's been a week. You have come up with your 3 objects, you know the why's behind them, now you need to do something with them.
This week you need to create a short story or flash fiction for each item. Its going to take longer than 15 minutes so get cozy and start writing. Let your ideas form and fall onto the paper/into the screen and just run with it. Remember, It doesn't have to be perfect! These are exercises to keep you writing, to keep your brain moving, thinking, and creating. I am super curious as to what three items described you and the stories you will create with them in mind. Please share with me in the comments below or even email me (jessicaedlercreative@gmail.com)
If you don't know what the 3 object challenge is, click the link to find out and get started!
Your three objects are about to turn into characters. Each with their own personality and traits and little background story this week. Your task this week, is to create a character outline from each object using part or all of the description you gave the item. Let's see what you have got!
Remember mine? Red lipstick, Combat Boots and pencil. I am doing this off the cuff so bare with me as I outline my characters as i type this post! No apologies though. My rough drafting is yours to love hate or be inspired by-no shame.
Red Lipstick
Name: Lucky
Age: 21
Occupation: Unemployed
Description: Blonde hair, blue eyes, 5'5" with a curvy build weighing around 150. Tattoo of a rose on her upper right thigh and thorns that wrap around her left shoulder.
Back Story: She found herself unemployed after her boss at the night club she worked at tried to seduce her in his office when she was wasted during a night off. Realizing almost too late what she walked right into, one of her security guard friends had kept his eyes on her and came to her rescue. Getting the call the next afternoon to not bother coming in wasn't a shock, but not getting her last paycheck was about to make her homeless. Delving into the false confidence she wears to approach patrons to buy shots, she decides its time to make some new friends in higher places. She will discover the higher the ladder you climb, the harder it is to hold onto.
Combat Boots
Name: Callie
Age: 24
Occupation: Event Planner
Description: Dark Hair with dark eyes. Wears glasses and gives off a librarian feel especially with her perfect posture from years of dance that she can't utilize anymore. Super organized and detailed, she is tall and slender with a hidden desire for excitement.
Backstory: Practicing since she was 3, Callie was on her way to becoming a prima ballerina at Julliard. Right after her final performance in High school, on her way to dinner with her family, her car was struck by another and she ended losing both her parents, and a hip replacement that would end her ballet career. She Dives right into supporting herself helping a man who is in need of a secretary. He owns an invitation company and after a couple years under his employ learning the ins and out of events and making friends with his contacts, she completely takes advantage of his mailing lists and builds her event planning business. Little does she know, half the names in the list in there are supernaturals and that she is about to make enemies with things she didn't even know existed.
Name: Rachel
Age: 29
Occupation: Writer and Waitress
Description: Light Brown Hair, Blue eyes, Small frame average height around 5'5" When not at work she lives in yoga pants and tee shits that bare shoulders and the sports bra under neath. She is obsessed with yoga and writing. She drinks black coffee with 1 sugar and rises at 5am to begin her day. Though she gets but 6 hours of sleep a night, she sleeps hard and has little social life.
She begins writing stories about the people in the diner she works in out of boredom one evening and shortly they begin coming true, starting with a love story or two who were on a first time date and needed a "safe" place to meet. Unfortunately for her, if she doesn't finish the story, things go very wrong very fast and she doesn't discover this until she writes a story of wealth and fortune for a man she was crushing on who will later kidnap her and force her hand to write stories until things start coming true. Once the ending is written, however, nothing changes the fate, and no one realizes that the story ends.
