Anybody Mind a Little Warm-Up Experiment?
Hey.
A while ago, I'd had the notion to construct a story based entirely on the "ficlet" concept, but with the twist that every ficlet page would represent a scene (or a part of a scene) of a TV episode script. I wasn't able to get anywhere with that, but I'd like to modify the game to a smaller "board" in the hope of better success.
Let me pull out an article Arthur C. Clarke wrote for Omni magazine in 1984, on the making of the Space Odyssey movies: "...Stanley Kubrick said to me, 'A movie consists of sequences averaging a couple of minutes in length. Each can be described in a single sentence. Arthur, all I want from you is a mere sixty sentences. Is that asking too much?'"
What I want to do is build a relay-race treatment this way. Sixty sentences. I'll provide the setting, premise and main character, and we pass the baton around, everybody providing a sentence/scene description as we go. I may step in to see if the plot points work, but other than that, I would trust everybody else and not make any prejudgments on where the story goes/ends up.
Anybody have a problem with this idea/exercize? kithlyara? What do you think?
FP
A while ago, I'd had the notion to construct a story based entirely on the "ficlet" concept, but with the twist that every ficlet page would represent a scene (or a part of a scene) of a TV episode script. I wasn't able to get anywhere with that, but I'd like to modify the game to a smaller "board" in the hope of better success.
Let me pull out an article Arthur C. Clarke wrote for Omni magazine in 1984, on the making of the Space Odyssey movies: "...Stanley Kubrick said to me, 'A movie consists of sequences averaging a couple of minutes in length. Each can be described in a single sentence. Arthur, all I want from you is a mere sixty sentences. Is that asking too much?'"
What I want to do is build a relay-race treatment this way. Sixty sentences. I'll provide the setting, premise and main character, and we pass the baton around, everybody providing a sentence/scene description as we go. I may step in to see if the plot points work, but other than that, I would trust everybody else and not make any prejudgments on where the story goes/ends up.
Anybody have a problem with this idea/exercize? kithlyara? What do you think?
FP