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What do you guys think of this:
We set a scene description (eg: boy breaks up with girl in a supermarket) and everyone who wants to participate writes, say, two pages. After a week or so we post it in the SYW forum. It's not a complete story, just one scene. The idea is to see how it could have been done differently. Rewriting a scene of an actual movie is rather hard because you always have finished product before your inner eye (I'm not that great at describing this, but perhaps you get what I mean). Now if you just have the rough description of the scene (as we usually do when we outline), you don't see every possibility how you can do it and where you can take it. This exercise might open our eyes to that a bit and maybe serves as an inspiration when we look for a different approach to writing a scene.
I know, I'm complicated, but I hope you understood what I tried to say.
So, what do you think? Interested? If so, I'm open to suggestions considering possible scene outlines.
day
We set a scene description (eg: boy breaks up with girl in a supermarket) and everyone who wants to participate writes, say, two pages. After a week or so we post it in the SYW forum. It's not a complete story, just one scene. The idea is to see how it could have been done differently. Rewriting a scene of an actual movie is rather hard because you always have finished product before your inner eye (I'm not that great at describing this, but perhaps you get what I mean). Now if you just have the rough description of the scene (as we usually do when we outline), you don't see every possibility how you can do it and where you can take it. This exercise might open our eyes to that a bit and maybe serves as an inspiration when we look for a different approach to writing a scene.
I know, I'm complicated, but I hope you understood what I tried to say.
So, what do you think? Interested? If so, I'm open to suggestions considering possible scene outlines.
day