Review exercise: Letter to the past
♥Purpose of the exercise
-The letter is a practical, personal example of how a character-you-undergo an inevitable process of change.
-Why and how it makes you feel?(This process of change is an essential ingredient of any effective story.)
♥Why and how it makes you feel
♥Record your experiences
♥Reflect your past and present.
♥Recall how you feel
♥Relish reliving the moment
♥What do the audiences want?(taken on a ride/journey and to discover something new)
♥Connect to the characters
♥Memories can be manufactured
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-In dramatic writing, the very essential is character change.
-All people have fragment of stories
-These potential ideas prompt your desire to know more
-Respond emotionally and intellectually to what you have heard
-Good stories are born in the hart, not in the head
-Remember the role as an audience
-After all you ARE the audience.
Memory
♥Your memory is a wonderful cabinet of past incidents which you have experience or been told.
♥These memory are points or reference to your own past existence
♥TIP: Write what you do not know because you will find some part of you that does know.
♥THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR PERSONAL DISCOVERY.
♥Why is memory different from experience?
♥How do we use memory to build creative content?
–Use some of your memory to spark off a story… `
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