 Drama: February 08, 2006 Issue [#875] |
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Drama occurs all around us each and every day in our ordinary lives. What we do with that drama makes all the difference in the world. As writers, we should be filling notebooks with ideas for stories based on real life happenings that we have witnessed. Then, we need to look back at those notes and mold and blend them into wonderful works of fiction for all the world to read
~InkyShadows~ |
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You know how we are always being told that good story material exists in the world around us? Well, it is true, and if we just use our eyes and ears and other senses, we can find that story material.
As most of you already know, I teach eighth grade math at an inner city elementary school. My students continually provide me with material for story ideas. Why, just the other day, I was teaching a lesson on probability when a story idea slapped me right in the face. You see, I was teaching my students about the difference between fair and unfair probability situations, and I casually mentioned that two-headed coins and loaded dice create unfair gaming situations, and I found that I had to explain what loaded dice were. After I told them how loaded dice work, one student quite proudly stated that he consistently used loaded dice when playing dice on the street to help him win money from his friends. Now, if that isn't fodder for a story, I don't know what is!
I could easily take this little nugget of information given to me by my student and write a story that would fall neatly into the drama category by telling the story of a boy from a disfunctional family who had to roam the streets and survive in a hostile environment by any means possible, thus showing that it is the environment in which the poor child found himself that is to blame for his turning bad. Or, I could create a tale of how this kid used his ingenuity to pull himself up by his bootstraps and got himself out of the negative environment he grew up in and ended up advocating legal changes to help other kids who find themselves in the same unfortunate predicament. It would also be fun to turn this little gem of information into either a murder mystery in which either the kid gets killed or he kills someone else for cheating and getting caught, or into a comedy in which someone learns of the kid's cheating ways and he escapes cleverly from one pitfall after another by using his knowledge of pranks that he and other kids pulled on his adversaries to stay on the run and out of jail or a grave.
Look around you and listen to the things people say. Sometimes words taken out of context can create a whole new situation for you to throw your characters into. Let your imagination run wild and have fun with using the commonplace and ordinary to enliven or resuscitate your stories.
Keep right on writing and having fun with words!
Till next time, this is InkyShadows signing off! |
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