WRITING OBSTACLE
submitted by Pomegranate Necromancer
Create a scene where your character is fleeing from something dangerous.
How will you create pace, atmosphere and tension in this single scene?
Alive
I’m running and running, my breath is shaking by the second.
I have to stay alive.
I don’t know what it is, but it’s chasing me, and I know it wants to kill me. I run past trees, cars, everything. I can’t stop running.
I’m going to die.
I know it’s getting closer, I can hear its footsteps getting louder. Tears are running down my face as I push myself to keep going. It’s going to get me. I keep telling myself, “RUN YOU MUST RUN”. I get hit by branches and things fly past my face, but I don’t care, I can’t stop.
“RUN YOU NEED TO RUN”
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I have to stay alive.