Challenge #277
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tenminutesadayToday's challenge: Select two characters. One of the characters is giving the other a present. Write the scene where the receiver is trying to guess what the item is. What the person might guess should be based on what they know - for example, if the giver is hiding the item behind their back, then the receiver isn't going to guess a bicycle. Note that the scene is about the guessing part, so don't worry about setting up how they got into the situation.
The caveat: The receiver's guesses should get increasingly wrong. The exercise here is to get into the mind of receiver and use what they know about the gift, what they're hoping for, and other thoughts to make their increasingly wrong guesses understandable to the reader. Maybe they're so excited that they aren't thinking clearly, so they actually do guess that bicycle - if so, be sure to convey that excitement through their words and actions, not by telling the reader.
The caveat: The receiver's guesses should get increasingly wrong. The exercise here is to get into the mind of receiver and use what they know about the gift, what they're hoping for, and other thoughts to make their increasingly wrong guesses understandable to the reader. Maybe they're so excited that they aren't thinking clearly, so they actually do guess that bicycle - if so, be sure to convey that excitement through their words and actions, not by telling the reader.