Writing tasks Week 1

For if you weren’t in class, or to jog your memories:

Write down something that you like, then something that you hate. Add five reasons why you like it, five why you hate it. Now write five reasons why someone might like what you hate, and why someone might hate what you like. Who would these people be? What stories could they tell? (paraphrased from Waldeback, Z and Batty, C (2012) The Creative Screenwriter: Exercises to Expand Your Craft London: Methuen Drama, p. 20)

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Watch I’ll Wait For The Next One

In groups, imagine this the first act/inciting incident of a longer work.

What happens next?

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