Voices: an exercise

A way to listen for your characters' individual voices.

Go here and get a random number between 1 and 24. Get your noun from the list below. This is what your character is looking at. Set the timer for seven minutes and write what s/he sees, in her voice.

Now choose another character and have her describe the same object for seven minutes.



1 ice


2 rain


3 light


4 sparks


5 flame


6 crack


7 storm


8 bone


9 blood


10 animal


11 eyes


12 teeth


13 birds


14 snow


15 path


16 tunnel


17 twig


18 shadow


19 leaves


20 doorway


21 moon


22 dust


23 darkness


24 stars

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