Flaw
-Jealously
Death Threat
-Rage
Violence
-Impulsiveness
Misunderstanding
-Too Kind
Being taken advantage of
-Gullible
-Trustworthy
Did not expect friend to cheat you.
Review Exercise: Letter to the Past
Sparked Off
-Event/ Person
-Reflect on the Emotions then and now
-Must be something you want to show and want to say
-Mostly due to fear confrontation
-Confrontation leads to having to deal with situation
-Revisit the past
Purpose of exercise is to see how a character- YOU- undergo an inevitable process of change.
This process of change is an essential ingredient of any effective story.
In a dramatic writing, the very essence is character change.
Observation- Learning from it
Experience- Learn from experience
Memory- How we learn from the past
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 (emotions)
-Visit to hospital
-Fear of going to dentist
-Falling in Love
-Ghost Story- Fear
-Death
Experience
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 mak terrific story sources.
Record experiences- Diary, Blog
Reflect your past. Colorful past
Recall how you felt
Writers who have gone through a lot in life can share with you more. 15year old love story vs 40 years old love story. Limited experience cannot tell interesting story.
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- Memories are in your heart- sparked off by emotions & memories. It’s in the development stage then it’s in your head.
Remember the role of an audience. After all, you are the audience. Take the audience on a ride of discovery.
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.
Write what you do not know because you will find some part of you that does know.
-Imagine
-Research
-Interview
There is always room for personal development
What is the difference between memory and experience?
Experience is what you go through while memory
Memory is what you remember.
