Overview
First meeting scenes fail when they are neutral: two people introduce themselves, exchange pleasantries, and nothing is established. The reader learns names and occupations. The scene does no work.
A first meeting that works establishes the dynamic immediately: who has power, who wants something, who is performing, who is caught off guard. The characters reveal themselves not through what they say about themselves but through how they handle the specific pressure of meeting this specific person.
The First Meeting Dialogue Prompt generates a scene where the dynamic that will define the relationship is established in the first exchange — and where both characters are already, in some small way, changed by having met.
What you get: - The power dynamic at the start and how it shifts - What each character wants from this encounter - What each character reveals without meaning to - A complete first meeting scene - The detail that will matter later - The first impression each character forms (and whether it is accurate)
Built for: Novelists, screenwriters, and any writer who needs a first meeting to do more than introduce two names.