Sunday, October 10, 2010
Medias Res
Day and night, the hobo always guards the 2nd bench in the 23rd street subway station with his hammer and donkey by his side. It’s scaring off the straphangers that use this station to go to places, in order to eliminate this problem Jeff the social worker is assigned to this case. Jeff visits him every morning at 7:45 sharp on his way to his office, however he’s used be sitting in his chair at the office at 7:53 sharp everyday, Monday to Friday. However, visiting this hobo upsets his whole daily routine set since 3 years ago, Jeff wishes that the hobo would just move into the homeless shelter already. He has to keep visiting the hobo until he convinced him to leave the station and live in the shelter, but no matter how much convincing Jeff does the hobo does not budge an inch.
Labels:
donkey,
hammer,
Hobo,
jeff,
social worker.
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This is a great start, but I want you to dig further to figure out what the real conflict of this story actually is....right now, it's somewhat external...Jeff doesn't want to visit the hobo he's assigned to. How can you make it even more relevant to these characters?
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