Storyteller Quest 2

Encouragement

Welcome teller of stories! Reciter of tales! Fibber of truths! Writer of imaginations! Yes, YOU!

If you don’t believe it to be so then ya best start believin’! If you continue down this road each week then you’ll be spinning stories in no time.

Or, if you’re a seasoned, storytelling veteran and you’re here out of curiosity or to whet your palette or quicken your pen, your expertise is more than welcome in our humble writer’s nook.

Knowledge

For a majority of the introductory storyteller quests, you will write in first person POV. For beginner writers, the easiest way to start is to tell everything from your perspective as if you were the main character and narrator.

I encourage you to start by writing short stories in first person.

So, what is first person?

In first person, the narrator is a character in the story, telling the story from their perspective. Make your writing personal. You will use the words “I,” “my,” and “we” in narration.

POV, or Point of View, is the viewpoint of the story being told.

Inspiration & Challenge

Write a moment, from your perspective (first person POV), where someone or something hurt you or when you were at a low moment. You don’t have to share it with anyone.

For example:

“The dust blew across my tan boots. I squinted and held my breath. As the sun rose over the barren stone, I thought I had awoken on the moon.

Reality returned in a flash as Sergeant Battle coughed up blood and dust a dozen paces away. His cheek pressed to the desert floor. We were still lost, and a handsome man disguised as a camel herder still hunted us—Sergeant Battle and I—the last two survivors.

I tried to roll over and crawl to my wounded friend, but I shrank back and instead wept dry, desert tears for my comrades.”

Have fun with it or don’t, but don’t bother telling a story that you couldn’t. Instead, write what you know.