Practice #17 - Getting out of you box

ELMontague

• Mar 7, 2009

• #1

Alright everyone,

Taken from the different ideas in the great ideas thread, let's make this week a bit of a challenge. Everyone write short piece with the following elements.

1. A couple meet for the very first time (M/f, M/m, F/f, etc...) just that it's 2 people.
2. They are in a tax audit.
3. One of them has something for feet.

Write it first in genre A then rewrite it in genre B. For example, written first as a paranormal then rewritten as chic-lit.

 

ELMontague

• Mar 7, 2009

• #2

forgive the apostrophe in the poll please.

 

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• Mar 7, 2009

• #3

You mean a fetish for feet?

 

ELMontague

• Mar 7, 2009

• #4

I mean a foot fetish.

 

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• Mar 7, 2009

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I don't really understand the romance one. We're writing erotica, isn't it all romance?

 

ELMontague

• Mar 7, 2009

• #6

Erotica does not have to be romantic. The idea of the practice is to write the same scene in two styles. Hopefully, it will force/help you to see it from a different angle and grow as a writer.

But, if it helps, think Bodice Ripper vs. Star Wars

 

ELMontague

• Mar 10, 2009

• #7

It looks like a tie this morning.

 

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• Mar 10, 2009

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I'm trying to picture a tax audit western erotica story. lol.

(For that matter, I'm trying to picture myself writing a western...it's one of the few genres, erotic or non-erotic, that I won't read.)

 

ELMontague

• Mar 11, 2009

• #9

We are running a tie. Someone will need to break it.

 

ELMontague

• Mar 12, 2009

• #10

Well folks, we all get to write a story about two people in a tax audit, one of which has a thing for feet, in both contemporary and fantasy settings. Remember, the exercise is same story different styles.

 

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• Mar 12, 2009

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ELMontague said:

Well folks, we all get to write a story about two people in a tax audit, one of which has a thing for feet, in both contemporary and fantasy settings. Remember, the exercise is same story different styles.

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I'm not sure how the story could be the same in both genres, but the plot points could be the same.

J.

 

ELMontague

• Mar 12, 2009

• #12

right.