It’s an unseasonably warm day in December. Imagine you’re a teenage boy of about sixteen or seventeen. You’re sitting in one of those chain book stores — either Borders or Barnes and Noble. You’re sitting with your laptop, eagerly tapping away on the keyboard when your attention is drawn by an attractive female about your age or perhaps a bit older.
You are first drawn to her perfume which smells like bubble gum. Her dark hair (she could be a blonde or a redhead, up to you depending on where you want to take this little exercise) is pulled back into a ponytail. She’s wearing a tunic dress and a pair of Ed Hardy Shoalin boots.
She’s standing in the aisle thumbing through a Jane Austen novel, humming a Christmas Song.
You are immediately attracted to her and want to meet her. Write a vignette or story in which you meet this girl. Maybe you walk right up to her and start a conversation. Or, perhaps you follow her around a bit before you work up the nerve. Either way, during the course of this exercise, you must learn at least three personal details about this young woman and reveal at least three personal things about the teen boy. In addition, you must work the following topics into the story in no particular order: Santa Claus, bananas, sock puppets, David Bowie, quantum physics, Dexter (the tv show) and Mom’s underwear.
Good luck, and get writing.
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