Writing is often filled with tropes – preconceived ideas that both the writer and the reader bring to the story. For this assignment we were asked to redefine a fairy tale trope of our choice. I chose trolls.
For a creative writing class, I was taking, we had to write a 500-word scene from The Catcher in the Rye demonstrating a specific perspective of our choice. I chose to do third person limited from D.B.’s perspective.
My first actual paid stories were six 100-word stories (often called “drabbles”) in 2016. I was paid US$5 for each. It was a big shot of validation early in my career.
One of our assignments in my first writing course was to write in a voice you don’t usually use (first person versus third). This was my entry.
During my first writing course, I wrote four different stories for the final assignment. We could only submit one. This is one of the ones I chose not to submit.
In my writing course, we were tasked with writing a scene. it was to be exactly 500 words in length, and during the scene, the reader was to become aware of a truth without it being said.
I don’t usually use people I know as an inspiration. But this time it just fit so well. As soon as I saw our writing prompt, I knew exactly who this was, an old co-worker.
They say that one of the greatest challenges for a writer is to write in the second person (you) present
