Ref: Pages 44 and 45 of the text by Robert Olmstead.

1. List five occasions for which people come together.
   Sunday dinner
   Birthday
   Night at the pub
   Harvest festival
   Memorial service
2. Introduce your characters by name and distinguish them by action and appearance.
   Captains Hughes and Gallagher in their red and white tabards leaned against the tavern wall and nodded along as Lady Duffy waved her hands and shouted her story at them over the crowd noise. Delilah the barmaid slapped down an empty tray onto the bar beside Otto the barkeep. Otto absentmindedly refilled the mugs while trying not to stare as Deliah bounced and tugged on the straps of her overly tight tartan blouse.
3. Introduce two new characters by name, interest, and dialogue.
   Two Insulae men at the bar, their pant legs still wet from the sea, lifted their mugs in a toast,
   “To a continued bounty of those little shellfish the fancy folk love so well.” They clashed their mugs together, sloshing off the foam before tilting them back and draining them in one breath.
4. Continue until you have accounted for all those present, concluding with the interior of your main character.
   Old Lugh, the gray muzzled sheepdog lay curled beside the hearth while Stymie the barn cast batted at Lugh’s tail failing to get a rise from the snoozing hound.

Captains Hughes and Gallagher, in their red and white tabards, leaned against the tavern wall and nodded along as Lady Duffy waved her hands and shouted her story at them over the crowd noise. Delilah the barmaid slapped down an empty tray onto the bar beside Otto the barkeep. Otto absentmindedly refilled the mugs while trying not to stare as Deliah bounced and tugged on the straps of her overly tight tartan blouse.
Two Insulae men at the bar, their pant legs still wet from the sea, lifted their mugs in a toast,
“To a continued bounty of those little shellfish the fancy folk love so well.” They clashed their mugs together, sloshing off the foam before tilting them back and draining them in one breath.
Old Lugh, the gray muzzled sheepdog lay curled beside the hearth while Stymie the barn cast batted at Lugh’s tail, failing to get a rise from the snoozing hound.
Brigid Saehe pulled the stool up to the harp and paused a moment to soak in the din and hum of the crowd. She was in her element and with a single pluck of the strings, she could make them all turn their heads.