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Character Exercise: Two Truths and a Lie
Do Two Truths and a Lie for each of your (main) characters.
For those of you who don’t know, Two Truths and a Lie is an icebreaking game where each person comes up with two true facts and one lie about themselves, and everyone has to guess which is the lie.
This is not just an exercise in coming up with two truths and a lie for each of your characters. It’s an exercise in figuring out how each characters would play. Would they use it as an icebreaker to teach people about them, or would they play to trick everyone and not have anyone guess the lie? Would it be a way to brag about who they know or what they’ve done, or would it be uncomfortable because they feel like they haven’t done anything, or because they feel like they’ve done too much and don’t want to brag? Would they play strategically? Would they have trouble coming up with two interesting facts about themselves? Would they lie for all of them?
If you want to take it a step further, write a scene where all of your characters were playing this with each other, and figure out what each person would guess.
Here’s a quick tip for you who aren’t that used to coloring darker skin tones:
paint the base tone with a typical pale white skintone and add a multiply layer on top with a brown color. This makes the bottom layer work as an undertone really nicely.
THERE’S EXERCISES FOR LAZY PEOPLE???????
MAYBE I’LL ACTUALLY GET FIT NOW
admiring the stockings. 1940’s.
#[40S COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER VOICE] WHAT’S BETTER THAN THIS? GALS BEING PALS
Fun fact: Though being gay in the 40s sucked, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. There were apparently, at one point in time time so many lesbians in the military that when they tried to crack down on it, the girls wrote back and said “Look I can give you the names, but you’ll lose some of your best officers, and half your nurses and secretaries.” And they pretty much shut up about it unless you were especially bad at subtlety. (Source: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. A good source for gay history from 1900s onwards.)
Sergeant Phelps worked for General Eisenhower. Four decades after Eisenhower had defeated the Axis powers, Phelps recalled an extraordinary event. One day the general told her, “I’m giving you an order to ferret those lesbians out.’ We’re going to get rid of them.”
“I looked at him and then I looked at his secretary. who was standing next to me, and I said, ‘Well, sir, if the general pleases, sir, I’ll be happy to do this investigation for you. But you have to know that the first name on the list will be mine.’
"And he kind of was taken aback a bit. And then this woman standing next to me said, ‘Sir, if the general pleases, you must be aware that Sergeant Phelps’s name may be second, but mine will be first.’
"Then I looked at him, and I said, ‘Sir, you’re right. They’re lesbians in the WAC battalion. And if the general is prepared to replace all the file clerks, all the section commanders, all of the drivers—every woman in the WAC detachment—and there were about nine hundred and eighty something of us—then I’ll be happy to make the list. But I think the general should be aware that among those women are the most highly decorated women in the war. There have been no cases of illegal pregnancies. There have been no cases of AWOL. There have been no cases of misconduct. And as a matter of fact, every six months since we’ve been here, sir, the general has awarded us a commendation for meritorious service.’
"And he said, ‘Forget the order.’
– The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
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