Writing Exercise: Mining for Details

This Week’s Writing Exercise (Recommended for Middle School through Adult) Whether you’re writing a ‘tween protagonist or a snooping senior at a retirement home (Eileen!), interviewing people who are living that experience is a gold-mine for realistic details. Ask your kid, your mother, your rabbi, whoever… “What are the top ten things I don’t know about being a middle schooler/senior/rabbi?” You can ask yourself the same question. The top ten things I remember about middle school include a 10-person blacktop/recess conversation about maxi-pads and getting a horrifically bruised arm doing archery in P.E. (Do they still do archery?)