Continuing the series of writing exercises inspired by Susan Breen’s The Fiction Class, today we are moving on to revision. For more information on the book and this series of posts, please check out the original book review here.

Revision: This is an exercise in learning to find creative solutions or how to write yourself out of a corner. There is a man sitting in a tree, and he is wearing a tutu. What happened?*

A Tutu, Interrupted

He was sitting in a tree. In a tutu. With his arms crossed.

“Come down from there.”

“I will not.”

“John, stop being ridiculous, you look like an idiot, please come down from that tree so we can talk about this…”
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