{"id":878,"date":"2016-02-16T20:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T03:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/?p=878"},"modified":"2016-02-16T20:35:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T03:05:35","slug":"stupid-scenarios-1-duran-hits-the-liquor-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/stupid-scenarios-1-duran-hits-the-liquor-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Scenarios #1: Duran Hits the Liquor Store"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m currently in a headspace where I can squeeze out just enough words to keep momentum going on my current project, but don\u2019t have much more, so I\u2019m forgetting about regular blog updates for a while. One thing I\u2019m doing, to keep my head in the story when I can\u2019t squeeze out actual story because it\u2019s become a thick glue-like paste and clogged up my brain tubes, is putting my characters in hypothetical situations. It\u2019s a great exercise because you should know your characters well enough to know what they\u2019d do in any situation, no matter how unlikely. I\u2019m writing them synopsis style (third person present tense) so I don\u2019t waste too much writing energy on them. I figured I\u2019d post them here, because why not. The first is my take on the prompt: how would your main character go grocery shopping? Since my main doesn\u2019t eat human food, I had to improvise.<\/p>\n

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Duran Hits the Liquor Store<\/h4>\n

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Duran is thirsty, and has just enough money on his chip to stock up on booze before taking off for wherever. He heads to the liquor store and goes straight for the vodka display. Gazing at the row with the cheapest booze, he can\u2019t decide. So he clears off half a shelf with the sweep of an arm.<\/p>\n

The bottles slide precariously in the crooks of his elbows. The nearest isle clerk, seeing him struggle and juggle, rushes in to help. He holds out a basket for Duran, and Duran says, \u201cAre you mad? I can\u2019t hold that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

He loses his grip on the lot of them, smashing all but one on the floor. Gazing at the puddle of booze, glass shards covering his shoes, he laments a moment for the loss. Then he smiles sheepishly at the clerk and says, \u201cI\u2019ll take this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

He slips and slides his way, crunching glass under his feet, to the till. The clerk rings him up for an exorbitant sum. Duran glares at the single bottle in his hand and says, \u201cThat much for this?\u201d The clerk then explains how he has to pay for all the ones he broke. Duran looks down the isle to the broken pile, now being swept up. His face flushes, and he teleports away.<\/p>\n

Since he\u2019s had no time to root himself to the bottle he had in hand, it hovers in the air a millisecond before joining its fallen brethren on the floor. The clerks gape at the empty space Duran left in the air, and check this off as yet another shitty day.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m currently in a headspace where I can squeeze out just enough words to keep momentum going on my current project, but don\u2019t have much more, so I\u2019m forgetting about regular blog updates for a while. One thing I\u2019m doing, to keep my head in the story when I can\u2019t squeeze out actual story because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,19],"tags":[37,25,49,38],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid","category-writing","tag-fiction","tag-practice","tag-stupid-scenarios","tag-what-im-working-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}