7/15/13 Meeting Recap

Activity:
Write two pieces for 10 minutes each, freestyle.
  • A man starts on his journey
  • A stranger walks into a town 
Prompt for next week:
Take what you wrote from activity and write it into a story. It could be an idea, phrase, a character, a setting, or a sentence you wrote in your activity. However you like.

Andrew Stanton: The Clues to a Great Story

Have you wondered how Pixar has become well-known for great story-telling in cinema realm?

7/8/13 Meeting Recap

Prompt for next week:
No dialogue. (Or for those who never done a dialogue before or who are challenged by it, could do the dialogue.)

Activity:
Write a one-line opening to a short bit of fiction. Hand it to the person on your left. Then write a single line to end a story. Hand it to the person on your right. Then, with the two lines you've been given, write the in-between.

7/1/13 Meeting Recap

The prompt for next week:
Pick any two people in any room. One says, "I don't like what you're doing." Continue the drama without revealing the relationship of the two people.

Today, we did a creative kick. On little pieces of papers, we each wrote a bunch of random stuff:
  • A generic character
  • A specific character
  • A location
  • A random thing
  • An event
  • A conflict
Then  we mixed them and we picked one randomly from each category. We wrote our stories using all the components that we picked. This activity makes you get in creative gear to weave all the random components into a story. So do it with your friends! It's fun.