Hello, writers. Many thanks to the doughty Leo Orionis for hosting last week’s WO! with a diary on Writing What You Know.
I have unexpected house guests this week, so I’m going to keep this fairly short and hopefully sweet. I’ve noticed several regulars like to write about cats. So write something about cats.
But
here are the ground rules.
Write five sentences from a cat’s point of view. Those five sentences can be a description of a setting or an object, an action sequence, a bit of a scene from your work in progress, even dialogue. Whatever you want.
But remember the rules of single viewpoint:
- You have to stay inside the cat’s viewpoint. No headhopping.
- If the cat doesn’t know what something is, you can’t say outright what it is.
- We can’t see the cat from the outside. We can’t see its facial expressions.
That’s it! Five sentences.
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