Weekly Writing Prompts #2


Explore a psychological aspect of your main character through a small action. Do they pick up a drink and put it back down without taking a sip? Do they go to get something from the cupboard and forget why they’re there?

Explorations like these are the perfect example of the age-old cliche “show don’t tell”… But in this case… see if it works for you!

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