Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 23:02:26 EDT From: the april fool Subject: EXERCISE: That Old Box... Yo! We're back, more or less, and I'm ready to roll out some words. So, moving right along the information highway, let's try this. It's based on one of them thar country songs that I heard while we were rolling down a real highway (Route 60, in the Apache Reservation, near Salt River Canyon, if you want to be precise. Talk about beautiful country!) 1. Pick two (or more) characters. Work out their relationship(s) up to this time. (relatives are fairly easy, others can be good too.) 2. Pick one of the characters to die. Suddenly or peacefully, young or old, the ways and means are up to you. 3. The other character(s) finds (gets by mail, stumbles over in a field, take your pick) a box that belonged to the recently deceased. 4. Your turn! Write up the scene... Finding/getting the box. Realizing what it is. Opening it. What's inside--and how does this "collection" change the character's beliefs and attitudes toward the deceased? Unpacking a box--make us see, hear, smell, feel the contents of the box, and the emotional shakeup as the character(s) discover that the deceased really was... Write! tink