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Challenges

      I  love challenges where I have a list of words that I have to include.  I have loved them since I was in school.  I remember math classes where I had to include rectangle, square; term after term and I loved it.  I wrote noir mysteries with math themes.  It was so fun.  I think that is why I feel so compelled to include this scene written for a writing class with the instructions.  I made sure I used all the terms and, I think, it even makes sense.  (I don't know if it has any of the other stuff.)      Have a read and tell me what you think: Write a scene of 250-350 words featuring a character with one concrete  want  (a table, a moose, a toothbrush, anything physical is fine!) and one  weakness . Use these two features to drive the action of the plot. Set up the story where  every other sentence  is a rising action. To help you come up with rising actions, use one word from the fo...