Elements of the Writing Craft. Part One: Storytelling, Lesson Twenty-seven: Ending with Inevitability.

Ref: Pages 34 and 35 of the text by Robert Olmstead

1. Name five examples of events outside of our control.
   Lost wallet
   Car crash
   Bad news
   Illness
   Heartbreak
2. Choose one of these events and re-write the third line from the lesson in the past tense.
   I was on a beach in a country where I didn’t speak the language, with people I had only just met when we got a bar tab larger than expected, then I realized my wallet was missing.
3. Write a paragraph that mimics the lesson’s inside story and outside story narration. Alternate your description, sentence by sentence, interior then exterior.
   Overexposure had reddened my face, the voices of the staff gained an edge to their tenor, I patted my pockets again. I was broke, and I owed those nice gentlemen a tidy sum.

I was on a beach in a country where I didn’t speak the language, with people I had only just met when we got a bar tab larger than expected, then I realized my wallet was missing. Overexposure had reddened my face, the voices of the staff gained an edge to their tenor, I patted my pockets again. I was broke, and I owed those nice gentlemen a tidy sum.