Dramatic Openings
Creative
a one or two sentence opening in which he establish and situation
dramatically.
For
example
1 Then the snarling dogged leapt at her.
2 “I’m sorry, Albert, but I’m leaving you. Now.”
3 The spreadeagled puppy had been nailed
by each of its paws to the back door.
Some ‘backstory’ is required. See if you can supply some
Love Theme
Write a ‘scene’ in which a man is complaining
that his wife no longer seems to love him in the way she did years ago. It’s not an argument between them, but her trying to get him to understand that
she, as it were, ‘misses’ him. He’s
always too busy for her, or not fully listening to what she is saying. They never do anything together.
You have to decide what his response it. Try to avoid the cliché that well he’s just
an insensitive bloke. Perhaps he hasn’t
realised her feelings. Does he feel
guilty? Or does he feel that she is
overdoing it, perhaps because of some other disappointment?
Obviously much of this is going to be dialogue,
but you have to decide also whether you’re going to trace their thoughts, which point of view you’re going to
take. Are we sharing his thoughts,
hers, or looking at them from a detached
narrator’s viewpoint?
To make a story/play/narrative of this it’s
probably a good idea to make their first conversation inconclusive and then let
them be ‘alone’ to think, maybe ask a friend, pray, take stock of the
marriage.
You might want to relate the discussion and the
relationship to some issues, such as equality.
Do they fall into gender stereotypes?
Is the way they live in some way unfair to one, or even both of
them? Are them making over idealistic
assumptions about Love?
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