(Kinda) Bi-weekly writing exercise thread #1

[Strazio Rockwell]

It's a great book and I recommend it to anyone wanting to improve their writing. As far as the name King describes it as "the most Freudian name".

So the first bit (with the protagonist's marriage, divorce, and the antagonists incarceration) is all backstory. It's up to you what and how much of the backstory you want to weave into the story. Your story will begin sometime in the future after the protag picks up his child from daycare, if you want to start further down the road than that (say after he has dropped little Nell off at her friend's house) that's up to you. Basically the idea is to give you the rough outline of a situation and then you take said situation and do with it as you see fit, forming a proper story generated from a situation rather than an A to B plotline.

Also I edited the opening post to be a bit more clear about how to post submissions as it was a bit confusing beforehand.