So, I apologize to everyone who may care for the lack of updates but I had lost my book that I pull these exercises from. Buuut it does not look like anyone really missed it anyway. However, I have torn my room apart and emerged victorious. So I am picking up where we left off. Welcome back.
Write a first-person-plural narration of an event from the POV of a very close-knit couple. This means the narrative should sound something like this: We found the body in the outhouse, and Jenny got the can of gasoline from the garage while Benjamin removed all the toilet paper rolls stacked up on the door shelves (No sense wasting them). Jenny and Benjamin are the we at the beginning of this narrative. The reader should be unable to discern which of the two is telling the story. Do not use the first-person pronoun I in this exercise. 600 words.
If you accept the challenge you may learn what it's like to have two minds in the narration - an uncommon experience. I've known couples who write letters this way, no first person pronouns, just this wonderfully eerie we and the names of the individual units of the couple - the two will trade off writing one section or another and sometimes edit or add material to the other spouse's section. Science fiction plays with this all the time by means of telepathy or actual joining of telepathy or actual joining of consciousnesses. I contend that this is difficult to imagine but useful to do anyway. Narration tempered by two ways of seeing the world - a schizophrenic worldview - every rule of narration we know instinctively. A lot of our everyday language is a blend of many different voices and languages - we echo acquaintances , newspaper or television news fragments of thought, advertising, film, fiction, and poetry without knowing it - often all in one paragraph of speech.
