Imagine your character…
- As a child responding to parental authority. If they are already a child, then imagine them as an adult reacting to laws of their land.
- Facing their first grieving moment – it could be loss of a teddy or a pet or worse.
- Wants to pretend to be someone else. What lies do they tell about themselves to assume a fake identity.
- Meeting someone more intelligent than them. (or vice versa).
Write…A scene in which at least one of the imagined scenes take place.
- It can be a short story, flash fiction or just a standalone scene.
- It can be fully exposition or in dialogue.
- It can be in any POV – even someone else talking about your character.
- It can be in any tense. Try a tense you don’t normally write in.
- Add as many additional characters you need to show the scenario.