Review excercise:
Something that sparked off:
- Event/ Person
- Reflect on emotions then/ now
- Most *important thing you wanted to know/ say ( mostly due to fear of confrontation) Confrontation leads to quarrel and having to deal with the situation.
-Revisit the past
Purpose of the letter is a practical and personal example of how a character – YOU- undergo an inevitable process of change.
- This process of change is an essential ingredient of any effective story.
- In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change.
Story telling tool 2:
Experience
- A storyteller should be concerned with the potential of every experience.
- Everything about you – where you were born, what food you eat, the bump on your forehead- your experiences are unique and irreplaceable.
- Many of your experiences are universal and translatable and can be used in any location.
Translatable ideas:
-Visit to a hospital
- Fear of going somewhere
- Falling in love
- Ghost stories
- Death
TIP:
If you don’t know what to do with a character, make him yourself for a while.
See how he relates to the world he has been thrown into.
PLUNDER YOUR OWN PERSONAL BACKGROUND!
The things that happen to you as you grow up and the things that are currently happening to you make terrific story sources.
-Record Experiences
- Reflect on your past (Colourful past)
- Recall how you felt about then/ now
- All people have fragments of stories
- these potential ideas prompt your desire to know more
- Respond emotionally and intellectually to what you heard.
- Good stories are born in the heart, not the head.
-Remember the role of an audience.
After all, you ARE the audience. ( Take them on a ride of discovery
-feed new info
Memory
Your memory is a wonderful cabinet of past incidents which you have experienced or been told.
These memories are points of reference to your own past existence.
TIP:
Write what you do not know because you will find some part of you that does know. Imagination, Research, Interviews.
There’s always room for personal discovery.
Memory:
What is the difference between memory and experience?
How do we use memory to build creative content?
(Experience is what you really go through, Memory is what you remember)
Inital ideas sparked by emotions, memories( heart)
Development stage( in your head)
Write 2 short stories
- one is completely TRUE.
-one is completely FALSE.
Only the author knows which is which!
Post these on your blogs under a page called True or False by Wed, 10am.
