Exercises writing course 2024

Original ways to begin a story – In Media res

Teacher: Annelore Hermann

Theme: beginning in the middle of the action

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A morning in the life of Lilith and Léthé

Their mornings have always been the same : Léthé purrs next to her until he wakes her up, making her get out of bed being grumpy. She lights up her incense sticks, opens her windows, breaths in the fresh air and looks at the forest.

Léthé follows her until she grabs her black velvet robe, picks up her usual cup of tea and sits right in front of the window. The forest was the only landscape she had access to. While petting Léthé, she reads another romance book and mocks its author for thinking love is a good thing.

« Love is a losing game… », those were always the first words of her day.

Then, she pretends to struggle in finding an outfit, but she always wears the same black Silk dress.