Responses to the November Writing Challenge

The stories written for this month's writing challenge have dealt with more serious themes than last month's did -- and the exercise in part calls for this. Based on a short story by Abigail Thomas, the exercise came to me through a friend who was completing an MFA at Sarah Lawrence. The idea is to portray a character at two different points in time and show, in 500-600 words, how the character has changed. Since change often comes through struggle, it's only natural that we would see more dramatic conflicts at work here.

To get a better idea of what I'm talking about, read and comment on the selections that have been submitted so far. Then see what the exercise challenges you to create.