Here is a writing exercise for anyone.
there are three or four objects
a building
a dump truck
a plant
a rock
a dog
AI (artificial intelligence) powering one of these items.
write several stories with you being one of these objects and maybe another person in your life, being one of the other objects. switch out characters and add in other people but don’t name them, in case another person finds your story. write it from your perspective but also being these objects. How would these objects feel about their situation? How would you feel if you were this object in this situation? Make up the story how you want it to be, it doesn’t have to be that the building is stationary. The rock does not have to be small; it can be very big. AI can power the dump truck; what would it do? Can the plant uproot itself? would you be happy or sad being the plant, building or rock etc.?
One day the dump truck decided to pick up its shovel and drive to a different part of the yard. The building had told the dump truck that he was always watched by the computer that had been installed inside of the dump truck so he wanted to see how far the signal could reach that evaluated every move that he made. He saw the plant as he was driving. He knew that the plant had been newly installed. The building had ordered the plant along with all of the new rocks to see if they went well together aesthetically. The plant looked very lonely in its new place and was looking longingly at all of the rocks. The dump truck decided to pick up some of the rocks that had been thrown in the other part of the yard. The computer was still within its area to signal to the dump truck that it was in the incorrect area, but the dump truck decided to help the plant instead. He drove over and shoveled many of the new rocks up with his shovel and drove over to the plant. He dumped all of them beside the plant and the plant laughed with joy at all of the new friends he had now because of the dump truck. The computer started fuming and the building started turning shades of red and orange. The dog was on the other side of the fence. He saw that it was locked so he undid the gate lock as he was strolling by. He opened the gate with his teeth so that the open gate was noticed by the dump truck. As he was walking away, he noticed a bush and decided to crawl under the cool leaves. He wanted to watch the yard to see what would happen next.
How does them story make you feel?
I wrote this quickly to show you one idea in writing this story. I wanted to write more of a story. You could write about what character that you would choose and why and all of the feelings associated with that. I wrote from the perspective of the dump truck. You can write from the perspective of the building or the rock or plant. whatever you would like to choose. I did not add a bird into this story because it is too easy to fly away and avoid the other characters. A worm is also not aloud! because it is too small to be noticed.
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