Challenge #538
Jan. 8th, 2026 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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tenminutesadayHere I am, a day late as always! But I have a good reason this time. I have to start looking for a job now, and I spent all of yesterday rewriting my resume and cover letter, searching job listings, and sending out applications. I don't really want to look for a job, and I really don't want to get a job, but I have to do it in order to qualify for unemployment benefits and it really would be good for us if we worked for another year or two before retiring.
So, today's challenge: Choose your character and put them in a situation where they have to do something that they really don't want to do. Simple and mundane is fine; it doesn't have to be a big, momentous task.
Now, write a couple of paragraphs in first-person of the character, as the narrator, talking to the reader about the thing and how they feel about doing it.
There's a lot to keep in mind here: the personality of the character and how that affects why they don't want to do it, and why they have to; the character's voice and how that translates to being a narrator (because how someone speaks probably isn't how they would narrate, though it does influence it), and what would be interesting to the reader to read about.
So, today's challenge: Choose your character and put them in a situation where they have to do something that they really don't want to do. Simple and mundane is fine; it doesn't have to be a big, momentous task.
Now, write a couple of paragraphs in first-person of the character, as the narrator, talking to the reader about the thing and how they feel about doing it.
There's a lot to keep in mind here: the personality of the character and how that affects why they don't want to do it, and why they have to; the character's voice and how that translates to being a narrator (because how someone speaks probably isn't how they would narrate, though it does influence it), and what would be interesting to the reader to read about.
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