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IWW
Practice-W Exercise Archives
Exercise: Solitary Journey
These exercises were written
by IWW members and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its members. You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that you found them at the Internet Writers Workshop(http://www.internetwritingworkshop.org/).
Prepared by: Alice Folkart
Posted on: 26 February 2012
Reposted on: 10 March 2013
Reposted on: 29 June 2014
Reposted on: 31 January 2016
Reposted on: 7 January 2018
Reposted on: 7 February 2021
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Write a scene, in 400 words or less, with a character
who has embarked on a journey. In the scene, the
character must be walking and must be traveling alone.
Give the character a goal or task.
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Is the character searching for something? Or someone?
Is this a pleasure jaunt, a hiking expedition, or is the
character fleeing a Siberian labor camp? Show the
landscape through the character's eyes. Is it a tropical
jungle in South America, a dense forest in Europe, the
Sahara Desert or the Australian Outback? Maybe your
character has been separated from a hiking party on a
treacherous mountain pass in the Alps? Is it scary and
threatening or is it beautiful and breathtaking? Is it
night or day, stormy or calm, hot or cold? Is the
character good or evil? What will happen if the
character does or does not achieve the goal?
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In your critique, tell the author how you felt as you read
the story and why. Were the character and the story
believable? Would you read on? If the piece did not work
for you, what could the author do to make it better?
Web site created by
Rhéal Nadeau and
the administrators of the Internet Writing Workshop.
Modified by Gayle Surrette.
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