Week Seven: Far from the mark, but close to home...?

Week Seven's completed challenge can be found here!

The final product strayed pretty far from the original prompt, but I am learning more and more to release the reigns and see where the story goes. (And not only as a creative measure, but as a way to ensure that I don't get stuck hating the prompt and everything it represents about former-me.) 

In the brainstorming, I decided that I would lampoon a former boss of mine, but that, too, was just a launching point. The Interviewer is not my former boss; s/he's not even close. But it was very helpful to start with that as a guideline and then let my twisted sense of humor wander....

Anyway, the play is today! Reflections and Week Eight's challenge are tomorrow.

PS: I'm also thrilled to have found a script format that is painless for me and looks good on the blog. Much, much easier to code (and sexier looking!) than Week One's completed challenge.

Week Seven: By and by it comes...

Just a quick update: I'm still plugging away at Week Seven's challenge. I'm exploring the interview thing—the most difficult part is making it a short play with funny moments rather than a comedy sketch. Giving both characters equal moments to shine rather than just crazy person + normal person = hilarity.

(I guess I could just write a comedy sketch...)

Anyway, I've been writing a little bit each morning before work and it feels good.

And lastly, I know everyone's been waiting for this: I deleted my first spam comment earlier today! It's a real blog now!

Brainstorming Week Seven

Spent this sunny Saturday morning brainstorming different ways to use this week's writing challenge. 

My local Starbucks is usually packed to the gills with writerlies and artsy types, but it turns out that there's seating a-plenty around 9am.

(There's also a lot of conversation to tune out. Earbuds are key.)

I think my original intent for the idea, when I wrote it, was to be an absurd take on the sort of documentary profiles we were watching at that time in Dr. Corea's psychology class. I just thought it would be really funny to have the voiceover narration casually declare that today was the day he kills this man. (Let us not speculate on my mental state at the time... it was college and I probably hadn't slept much.)

So I started thinking about whether it had to be a voiceover, or should it be the actual interviewer who declares this? (In which case the interviewee would have to react...) And then I thought about whether it had to be a documentary—it could just be an interview. An interview for a job, perhaps? And then I started thinking of the worst job I ever had, and how the interview for it would have gone if the guy I worked for had presented himself then as he would later act toward me...

It may continue to evolve in the writing of it, but so far, so promising!