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writercises Original posting Feb. 21, 2019
Inspired by #20 of Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling (one version over here https://www.fripp.com/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/). The Rule says:
Exercise: Take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How do you rearrange them into what you do like?
Okay, let's see...
1. Take a movie, TV show, story, or even a work in progress that you don't like, that isn't working, whatever. It's broke, okay?
2. Take it apart! What are the elements that are there? Setting, characters, plot (events, scenes, you know?).
3. Now, what would you change to make it work, for you? What's missing, what's extra, what's wrong with it, and how can you add/subtract/modify to make it work?
4. (bonus points!) Now that you know what's wrong and how you want to change it, as Nike advises, DO IT!
I think of this as revision at the strategic level -- building blocks, not details.
Inspired by #20 of Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling (one version over here https://www.fripp.com/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/). The Rule says:
Exercise: Take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How do you rearrange them into what you do like?
Okay, let's see...
1. Take a movie, TV show, story, or even a work in progress that you don't like, that isn't working, whatever. It's broke, okay?
2. Take it apart! What are the elements that are there? Setting, characters, plot (events, scenes, you know?).
3. Now, what would you change to make it work, for you? What's missing, what's extra, what's wrong with it, and how can you add/subtract/modify to make it work?
4. (bonus points!) Now that you know what's wrong and how you want to change it, as Nike advises, DO IT!
I think of this as revision at the strategic level -- building blocks, not details.