FICTION 110 [M] [WARM-UP] [1] [2] - Classroom A - Classroom B

Lesson 2

For the final writing assignment, select one of the following projects:

Project 1: Create your own ideas and concepts using Provocations, Movements and Random Input.

  • Extract a Principle
  • Focus on the Difference
  • Moment to moment
  • Positive aspects
  • Circumstances

Use two Provocations and Random Inputs from the following list and three of your own. Use a different Movement for each. You may mix and match any way you'd like.

  • Provocation: Spherical shipping boxes
  • Provocation: Buildings have liquid walls.
  • Provocation: Highways are made of vegetables.
  • Provocation: Computers mow grass.
  • Provocation: Soft drinks are $100 a bottle.
  • Provocation: Cars should wash themselves
  • Provocation: A zoo without animals
  • Provocation: Watching movies with blindfolds
  • Random Input: cannibal
  • Random Input: fish
  • Random Input: library
  • Random Input: nurse
  • Random Input: reptile
  • Random Input: stream
  • Random Input: tabloid
  • Random Input: ventriloquist

Project 2: 

The setting is in the center of a town in the 13th century. There is a large crowd circled around the gallows pole at sunrise. Imagine how each of the following characters is feeling and thinking in a specific moment  ... two minutes before the bottom drops out. For each character, write a short paragraph describing how their POVs are different than the other characters.  In other words, what might they be thinking, remembering or planning?  Use a Provocation and a Random Input with a different Movement for at least five of the following characters:

  • the condemned man
  • his wife
  • his son
  • his daughter
  • his friend
  • his father
  • his mother
  • his brother
  • his sister
  • his enemy
  • someone watching from a great distance
  • someone close enough to see the sweat roll down the condemned man’s neck
  • the man next in line to be executed
  • the woman next in line to be executed
  • the executioner
  • the priest
  • the town drunk
  • the village idiot
  • the undertaker
  • a merchant  
  • the king who condemned the man
  • the queen
  • the king’s mistress
  • the court fool
  • God

Alternative for Project 2:

Take some or all of the above characters and translate them into modern people and positions. You may move the scale down to include only people if you’d like. The scene doesn’t have to be an execution.  For example, it could center around someone about to be fired from a large company or the victim of a school prank.

 

 

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