Friday, 21 February 2014

Continuous Writing

This is an exercise used by many directors and writers to gain ideas and let your imagination flow. We had to write continuously for five minuets using a line from the poem Going Going as stimulus. 

Poem line used for Stimulus: earth will always respond

Writing for five minuets: with its weather and ever changing circumstances, it tests us or dares us or just plays us? a never ending convocation and who will be the winner? either way both earth and mankind will end up destroying each other, we change the earth's body so much I don't see why it hasn't destroyed us years ago. earth is like a teacher who always questions you and answers everything. it favors others and humiliates the rest. one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. earth got rid of unicorns and humans destroyed the magic that the universe holds. the earth takes care of some beautiful people who may not cherish the world. It's secretive and bold but always responds to what we do to it. hunger is ever present in the earths subtext and it is present in my stomach today. i wonder what the earth eats. humans? is that where you go when you die? the earths stomach? 

The highlighted sections are the sentences which Humera liked the most, because after we had to pick out certain phrases from each others writings and turn them into a convocation. This exercise helped me to see how easy it is to write something spontaneous and turn it into a script. I really enjoyed doing this exercise as it's not often you get told to just write whatever comes into your head. 

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