Draft a 100-word scene

What you need

Notes app or paper

Steps

1. Choose a place, a person and one small problem.
2. Write what the person sees, does and decides without explaining their whole history.
3. Read it aloud and remove one sentence that slows the scene.

You're done when: The scene has a choice or change by its final line.

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