Building Blocks toward a Story
One way to open up a narrative…
> Draw a map of the neighborhood
(either fictional or non-fictional)
> Write about an event that happened there
> Create a character who lives there
> Draw of make a paper doll of this character
> Make a second character
> Intro them to each other:
What do they say?
How do they say it?
What are they doing?
Make a conversation.
See where it goes.
> Write up the scene as a little story.
> What has been accomplished by doing this?
You have created a short narrative.
You have learned to tell a short story.
Include a quote, a question, state a problem, etc.
It’s a moment in time, but it can be expended.
Make up a character ... Make up a second character ... Write a letter from one to the other ... Add a third, and a fourth, and a fifth character ... See where it goes! This sounds a bit like a fun little game we are playing right now over at LibriVox, not as one of our official projects, but just as an amusement in the Off-Topic Forum. We're making up a story, and the results are unpredictable, to say the least!
ReplyDeleteIf you want to follow along, look here for the discussion of the game:
https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=73543
or here for the story itself:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DjmaghDa1XPMdEuRZaaILcmaPHsvMbf_whQRsav7bSg/edit