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writercises2022-01-02 06:26 pm
mbarker) wrote in writercises2022-01-02 06:26 pm
EXERCISE: Watch the ads! (300 words)
Original Posting March 25, 2018
I have to admit, I enjoy watching tv ads. They are designed to catch your attention, and the quirky way they attempt to do that...
I just caught one (or was caught by one?) that started with a young woman sitting in a library reading a book. Then they showed a young man standing a little ways off looking at her, with his white headphones, cord trailing down to the cellphone in his hand. The focus moved to the cellphone, and we saw his fingers twitch and move a bit. Then, suddenly, blue books and pamphlets were flying from everywhere, covering him in an armor made of books? Then the young man, in armor, walked towards the young woman, who looked up from her book and smiled.
Then they ran the sponsor’s name across the screen. Spotify? I have no idea what that is, probably a new social network or something. (I got curious and looked it up. Music and so forth service? No idea how that relates to the ad...)
But that scene, of the young man armoring himself with books to go talk to the young woman... I love it! Heck, you could start a short story or book just with that sketch scene, and go on from there. Who are the two young people? Why is she reading, and why does he think an armor made of books will help? What is he going to say to her? And, of course, what happens next? Does she send him off to fight the dragon of unreason, wearing his books and wielding a sword of... sword of logic? A pen? Might be. Who knows?
Anyway, that’s my suggestion for this week’s 6x6 prompts. Keep your eye open for tv ads, or even magazine or whatever ads, that happen to catch your attention. What’s the situation or setting that catches your eye? Why is that intriguing? What’s the little story that they tell? And then twist it, use it for your own story!
Go, go. Write!
I have to admit, I enjoy watching tv ads. They are designed to catch your attention, and the quirky way they attempt to do that...
I just caught one (or was caught by one?) that started with a young woman sitting in a library reading a book. Then they showed a young man standing a little ways off looking at her, with his white headphones, cord trailing down to the cellphone in his hand. The focus moved to the cellphone, and we saw his fingers twitch and move a bit. Then, suddenly, blue books and pamphlets were flying from everywhere, covering him in an armor made of books? Then the young man, in armor, walked towards the young woman, who looked up from her book and smiled.
Then they ran the sponsor’s name across the screen. Spotify? I have no idea what that is, probably a new social network or something. (I got curious and looked it up. Music and so forth service? No idea how that relates to the ad...)
But that scene, of the young man armoring himself with books to go talk to the young woman... I love it! Heck, you could start a short story or book just with that sketch scene, and go on from there. Who are the two young people? Why is she reading, and why does he think an armor made of books will help? What is he going to say to her? And, of course, what happens next? Does she send him off to fight the dragon of unreason, wearing his books and wielding a sword of... sword of logic? A pen? Might be. Who knows?
Anyway, that’s my suggestion for this week’s 6x6 prompts. Keep your eye open for tv ads, or even magazine or whatever ads, that happen to catch your attention. What’s the situation or setting that catches your eye? Why is that intriguing? What’s the little story that they tell? And then twist it, use it for your own story!
Go, go. Write!