Write your own denial of a crime, using the same manic-intensity techniques as Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart.
To recap:
Situation: A character strongly denies an accusation.
Feeling: Intense, passionate, compulsive.
Techniques:
- Clusters of intensifiers, qualifiers and describers
- Strong words
- Placing important words at the end of a phrase
- Precision with time
- Exclamations
- Fragments
- Defensive questions
- Obsessive repetition
Go crazy with it. Look at the examples on the previous page if you need inspiration.
