~~~~~~~ EXERCISE NINE: Telling It Slant Part One: A & B The goal of this exercise is to tell a story and present two characters through dialogue alone. Write a page or two—word count would be misleading, as dialogue leaves a lot of unfilled lines—a page or two of pure dialogue. Write it like a play, with A and B as the characters’ names. No stage directions. No description of the characters. Nothing but what A says and what B says. Everything the reader knows about who they are, where they are, and what’s going on comes through what they say. If you want a suggestion for the topic, put two
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