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@literatureforthelight  Exactly! That’s exactly what I had in mind. Leave the audience wondering if the fire pixie was real. I couldn’t have said it better.

Also, @corissa I think we could do the same kind of thing with his moral dilemma. Give both choices enough weight to leave the audience wondering if he made the right choice. Whatever he ends up choosing. Our job as storytellers isn’t to give our readers answers, it’s to make them ask questions. I think I read that on a blog post by Josiah DeGraaf.

@samuel I was thinking a Scene (not a SCENE, a Scene). I think we can pack everything into one Scene, then add to it (add other Scenes to make a SCENE) if we need to. Besides, I got the impression from the prompt that we would really only need a snapshot of this kid’s life to showcase (so to speak) his voice. If we start thinking this thing has to be long for his voice to be engaging, then we’ve already lost.

And @julianne , I love the simplicity idea. I don’t think you over thought it. It was a good analysis. Thinking about it that way will help me if I ever have to write from a child’s perspective.

Speaking of which…

@raemarie @mcnoggin @cindy @kate @elizabeth @girlsetfree @theresa-play @r-m-archer @literatureforthelight @livgiordano @lady-iliara @m_corinnemusic @j-parkhurst @gabbyj @sierra @cassandraia @chalice    I’m up to writing first draft. I tend to write short, and messy, so we’d have to clean it up a lot, and maybe make it longer. And like I said, the voice would have to be edited a lot.

But I’m a firm believer that written horribly is better than unwritten perfectly. As the masters say, “Scenes are not written, they’re re-written.”

… or something like that.

Does anyone else want to write it? I wouldn’t want to take away from someone who really wants to write this. Also, the soonest I can work on this will probably be Sunday, so if anyone wants to and can write it sooner than that, that would be great. The sooner we write this thing, the more we can edit it before the deadline.