{"id":1798,"date":"2023-07-17T11:17:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2023-07-17T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:17:47","slug":"7-17-2023-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/7-17-2023-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/17\/2023 Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Use at least four of the bits of dialogue below (in any order) in a scene or a whole story. Make up the two or three characters who are talking. You can add to the dialogue with anything you like. Follow the guidance in \u201cDialogue Helper\u201d to format the speech and show who\u2019s speaking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wish I could have ice cream for dinner and nothing else every night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAre you listening?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI like clouds better than a plain blue sky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat are you up to?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean \u2018up to\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDoing. As in, making trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe last time I remember reading my book was in the bathroom, but it isn\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYesterday, I found $10 on the sidewalk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou never listen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy foot fell asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJames told me you\u2019re his least favorite person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhy did he tell me, or why are you his least favorite?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cForget it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOkay. Glad to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you feel confident that you have dialogue format down, you can do one of the prompts below instead, which are beginnings from famous or recent novels or plays, not written by me. Pick one\u2014or you can smoosh two together\u2014and keep writing the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWho\u2019s there?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s all right. I came back.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The letters scratched on the clay are unevenly formed, suggesting that the writer was learning to write.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I\u2019ve been turning over in my mind ever since.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wish I could have ice cream for dinner and nothing else every night.\u201d \u201cAre you listening?\u201d \u201cI like clouds better than a plain blue sky.\u201d \u201cWhat are you up to?\u201d \u201cWhat do you mean \u2018up to\u2019?\u201d \u201cDoing. As in, making trouble.\u201d \u201cThe last time I remember reading my book was in the bathroom, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}