When you have built a sufficient list of words, write a 200-word fragment of fiction that has something to do with a fictionalized situation this person, or someone like this person, would be involved in. Use only the words on this list, although you may repeat the words within the exercise as much as you like. If you have built up a strong relationship with a fictional character, in your long story, you may simply use that character s full name, in place of someone you love. Imitate the logical structure of a story you admire. Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
Friendship implies an almost piteous acceptance of face values.
The exercise is to fill in the blank space, connecting the two paintings. Do the same thing, only with paragraphs from other writers. Choose two good and useful and thrilling paragraphs. Make a bridge between the paragraphs, although you don t need to make the matter between the two paragraphs equal to the two bookend paragraphs.