Characters need not always be human. For this exercise, you will be giving voice to an object.
- Take a look around you. Choose an object and examine it.
- Consider the following questions:
- Where is the object at this moment?
- What is in its environment?
- What would the object see if it could see?
- What would it hear?
- What stories would it tell if it could talk?
- Now write from that object’s point of view.
- Try to avoid physical description or the name of the object.
- What the object is should be felt through what it sees, hears, and says.
- Why does your object need to tell its story now?
- What makes this moment in its existence different in order to allow for this story telling?
- See if you can communicate this through the words you give the object.
- Read your monologue to someone else—maybe a friend or a family member.
- Can your audience guess what the object is?
- Can they identify what story the object needs to tell and why it has to tell it now?
