Today, complete exericise 8.4 for your "third draft". Then go on to 8.5 and 8.6. Repeat a major event and assemble the best parts and pieces of all your drafts.
Exercise 8.2 asked you to 1). Come up with a few opening paragraphs that grip, and hook us as readers. 2). Write the story quickly.
Exercise 8.3 asked you to add dialogue, change the story to 1st person POV, then cut unnecessary events, characters, and plots until you have one story where your protagonist is in trouble.
Exercise 8.3 - part 2 asked you to start again. Tell the story over again, this time without referring to your previous drafts.
Exercise 8.4 is asking you to skip some time (a day, an hour, a week, etc.) and have one or two of your characters talk to the narrator (remember this was supposed to be first person POV). Avoid introducing new characters. Through the dialogue there should be a change indicated through the narrator.
Exercise 8.5 is asking you to assemble the entire story. Pick up the pieces and tell the story again, now knowing what your previous drafts have given you. Consider using white space (see pg. 164). A sample model of this is on pg. 164-166.
Go this far. If you completely finish, we are going to finish this story by inserting repetition (as stated in exercise 8.6). Good stories often have a circular element to them. Things described in the beginning often come back again at the end. Try this sort of thing in your last draft.
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