Our dialogue exercises this month will mostly focus on the technical mechanics of dialogue writing — but not today.

For today’s ten-minute writing exercise:

Write a scene where a couple argues about a small issue (who left the porch light on? whose turn is it to cook dinner?). The argument they seem to be having is masking a much bigger conflict (are they going to make rent that month? is someone cheating?).

Subscribe to the podcast for a ten-minute writing exercise every day! Our themes this month are:

• Love in all its forms
• Dialogue
• Comedy Writing Step by Step by Gene Perret

We will also write a complete work of flash fiction together in a week from Feb 17 – Feb 23. That’s right, starting TOMORROW.

No pre-work needed, and as always, zero homework outside of our ten minutes a day. This month we’ll use Dan Harmon’s story circles method to plan out our stories.