Sunday, January 16, 2011

Exercise in creating "Anticipation"


Exercise:  Write a boring anticlimactic story.

As Jason took down notes in class, he realized that the notes were full of spelling mistakes, but it didn’t really matter since he was the only one reading them.  The sentences slowly were tapped on his computer one after the other giving him no satisfaction knowing if he wanted to review them in the future he would have to go back and manually fix every mistake one by one.

            Then rewriting it to add anticipation:

As he tapped away on his keyboard taking notes in class, Jason’s Swiss background suddenly became visible. Who had moved all the letters on this computer keyboard? A Y for a Z a Q for an A. What would Monika say with all those errors? He soon realized that this could serve in his advantage as he would have a viable excuse on any spelling mistakes in his assignments.  He gave it a go and on his first assignment the words he had botched were Hill (with only one "l") and Vacuum (with only one "u" .) Monika didn’t really accept the explanation that his keyboard only had one L and one U. He supposed he should get a new keyboard.

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