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Writing: Workshop (Exercise 5)
Writing: Exercise 5 – Dinner With an Idol
In this Exercise you can choose anybody in the world, living or dead, to have dinner with. Who would you pick? Why? and what would you ask them?
Remember to characterise your chosen idol as best you can, for example, Saddam Hussein isn’t going to be a chirpy well mannered person, where as you are unlikely to find Kofi Annan swearing, being blasphemous and a racist bigot!
Maybe to start with put a very brief reason why you chose who you did, but you should ideally try to focus on the narrating, so make sure you have as much conversation as possible. Doing this you should improve your narrating skills, and it also enables you to try characterisations of real people.
This Exercise should ideally be over 300 words, and remain below 3000 (but that can be wavered), and can be undertaken at any time, and done as many times as you like.
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Re: Writing: Workshop (Exercise 5)
Dinner with the Great Dane
So, I’ve chosen Peter Schmeichel, the famous Man Utd goalkeeper who, amongst many, many other things, stopped that penalty in the FA Cup Semi against Arsenal to ensure we won the treble. The reason I choose him is because I would reckon that he is a great character, and I would love to know what the real Schmeichel is like.
I would go for a sit down dinner at a quiet place so I could pick the brains of Peter for hours without any interruptions. After the introductions and pleasantries I started with some rigorous questions to the master.
“So, lets get to some of the more significant moments in your life.” I started.
Peter pulled a momentarily serious face, before bursting into that deep Danish laugh, again! “O.k, shall we start with when I was born?”
I laughed, “No we can leave all those sorts of question to the likes of Heat Magazine, I wanna talk football.”
Peter’s smile broadened, “Well now we are on the same level, used to play a bit myself!”
“Yeah, yeah I think I remember.” I was trying with great earnest to get Schmeichel to tell me some of his footballing stories, the ones all other footballers are normally very eager to share, but I could tell he that he was a somewhat modest fellow, and was going to need some prompting. “You made some pretty special saves in your career, which was your best, and which was your most important?”
“Well, my best was one that got compared to a great man like Gordon Banks’…”
“Porto”
“…yes, Porto in the Champions League. It wasn’t at a crucial time, we were strolling the game, but it was probably my best. Most important is pretty obvious I would say.
“FA Cup Semi?” I interrupted again!
“Arsenal, and in particular Bergkamp, the timing, the whole occasion. What Giggsy went on to do maybe overshadowed that moment, and I tell him how inconsiderate he was, couldn’t he have just done a tap in…” We both shared a chuckle at that. “…But I would say that was my most important save by a long way.”
“What was your greatest medal to win?”
“People would think it would be the Champions League, which on a club level is the best you can get, but for me to win the European Championship with my home country of Denmark was something else. As underdogs, something I didn’t usually feel at United, you can enjoy the moment more, it’s not relief when you win it’s a case of pure euphoria.”
I could totally see where Peter was coming from with that, and it again showed his modest, yet confident side. “Are there any players that you dislike in football?”
“No” in said flatly.
“Not even Ian Wright?”
Peter sat still for a moment, briefly I thought I had silenced the Great Dane but that isn’t very likely, “I don’t even hate Ian Wright.” He said laughing. “Footballers never really hate each other, you perhaps like some more than others, but at the end of the day you have to stick together because there are a lot of people waiting to bring you down.”
“Would it be fair to say that you liked most other players more than Ian Wright?” I quizzed again.
“Maybe.” He smiled broadly. “Do you know you are starting to sound like a reporter, don’t work for the Sun do you?”
“No,” I said somewhat embarrassed, and decided to change the line of conversation. “When I was a boy, I used to be a keeper, but was too small at the time. Then moved to the glory position and bagged hatfuls of goals.”
“Ah right I see, the “headline stealers” as I call them. I could save 15 one on ones and you could miss 10, yet if you beat me just once you’d be the hero of the game.”
“And rightly so,” I laughed, he laughed, and that was about as confrontational as I could get the great man to be. A true legend of football and a genuinely nice bloke.
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