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WRITING OBSTACLE

Write a selection of diary entries by someone who has been abducted by aliens.

Try to convey your character's emotional state through each entry, whilst advancing a plot. How do they handle their situation?

Help I’ve Been Abducted

Help. I’ve been abducted by aliens.

I have no idea how you’re reading this. Did it float out into space somehow? Am I dead and you found it on me? Did I escape and get back to earth and now you’re reading this, Aria? (If it is you, Aria, get your little sister nose outta my business and SCRAM! I MEAN IT! WHY HAVE YOU NOT YET? GO! YOU BETTER NOT READ THE NEXT SENTANCE! OR ELSE! UH OH, YOU READ THE...

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Observe And Report

Day1



It’s like they have done this many times before. My ā€œroomā€ or cell is like a presidential suite in a fancy hotel. I woke up in a King size bed more comfortable than my bed at home. I’ve been wandering around the room looking for a way out, but nothing. They haven’t said anything to me, I do feel like I’m being watched though. There’s an intercom on the wall that I’m trying to communicate wi...

Earth

Log 1

09/10/2189


I am logging today to get my thoughts down on paper


The aliens abducted me one week ago.

I have been keeping track of everything.

How many times the light in my cell flickers per day.

How many footsteps I hear walk past.

How many awkward conversations from the guards outside my door I hear.

I listen to the dripping of a faucet somewhere.

Drip

Drip

Pause

Drip

Drip

...

im the alien and these are my thoughts

I feel so much so often. So many things hurt. Crying feels so good because I couldn’t do it for so long. I love bleeding. I am so good at not making myself bleed but every time it happens on accident I am purely elated. Temporary relief. A memory I’ll hold when the cravings come in. A gorgeous paradise I’ll imagine when I wish the liquid was pouring from my veins into a river on the ground so that...

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Dear Diary,

Dear Diary,

I’ve been writing in this journal ever since I was three. It was mostly just complaints about my annoying sister, Betty. Now I would give anything for me to be writing about that. Everything is more serious now. Not in a ā€˜I have a math test I didn’t study for’ way. In a ā€˜the world might be ending soon’ kind of way.

Scientists have found some sort of metal object in space, hur...

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Help

August 23, 2039

It’s been hard leaving everything. My friends, family, and just my life. So when I finally made some friends in my new school in Dallas, I was a little relieved. Sure, they definitely weren’t very popular, and got picked on because of their strange features. Ethan had wide, dark brown eyes that looked almost black and small mouth and an even smaller nose, and Rosemary had a slim, ...

My Weekend in Outer Space

Friday

Alright. This is going to sound insane, so I'm just going to let it out.


I've been abducted by aliens...or at least I think they're aliens, I haven't actually seen them since I woke up. For all I know I could have been taken by a group of space colony individuals...but to that extent what the hell would they want with me? I'm not exactly smart and I don't know a thing about science.


To...

The Missing Link

May 26, 2052


Dear diary,


I’m cold. I woke up this morning to half of my blankets toppled onto themselves. I had another nightmare. That makes this four in a row. I’m no closer to seeing the face. Right when I come up behind it, I reach my hand out, inches from its shoulder, before I’m pulled from the nightmare. Waking up this morning, I’m met with a pounding inside my skull. I forgot that I’m b...

Probe Me, Please?

Day 1: The Abduction


Holy fuck, I just got abducted by aliens. I’ve been waiting for this day my entire life! Ever since playing Sims 2 on the PlayStation 2 as a kid, I’ve wanted to be abducted by aliens. And that day has finally come. I was looking through my telescope, just like in the game, searching for my abductors. Suddenly I was lifted through the air without warning. A tractor beam of som...

There and Back Again

DAY ONE

The aliens want me to keep a diary. For science, I'm guessing. Their translator isn't great, so it's hard to know what they want. So far the only nouns they seem to have access to are "human," "planet," and "cow." But they haven't hurt me yet, so, hooray? I mean they did take my cell phone away but I'm not going to say that's the same thing as pain. I will not be a "first world problems" a...