Start Writing Fiction - week 2 (finding a voice)

Explore the following ideas for how to get started with a story and also how you might approach editing the story.

• Immediately, without thinking where it might lead, write approximately three lines that follow on from the phrase ‘Emma said that …’
• When you’ve finished, cut ‘Emma said that’. Notice how little has been lost: you’re still left with whatever Emma said. 

(Emma said that) She was furious. Eight minutes to get to the station and the stupid man on the checkout was chatting about last night's 'I'm a Celebrity ...' to the elderly lady who was very carefully packing her groceries. Finally, she extracted a purse from the depths of an enormous handbag and slowly counted out the exact amount, pausing to continue the discussion of last night's hilarity in the Australian bush. It was an unfortunate moment for the till roll to run out.