by Terry 17 Replies latest jw friends
Terry, a captivating story.
A side amateur question: was the specific product placement intentional? (i.e. brand of soft drink, brand of a facial tissue). I am dabbling into writing copy for marketing, and there are way too many parallels (as far as telling a story goes) to ignore here.
Reminds me of the Halloween story of the kids telling ghost stories in the basement, in the dark -
The Witch is Dead - and this is her head.
The Witch is Dead - and this is her heart.
The Witch is Dead - and these are her hands...
and so on. And they passed the pieces around in the dark for everybody to touch.
Of course, everybody knew that it was just a cabbage for the head, raw meat for the heart, and so on.
And then, some idiot turned on the lights...
A side amateur question: was the specific product placement intentional? (i.e. brand of soft drink, brand of a facial tissue). I am dabbling into writing copy for marketing, and there are way too many parallels (as far as telling a story goes) to ignore here.
I sort of feel like something very real has to be inside a scene to anchor it in reality. Something tangible and familiar.
Otherwise, the mind goes into a torpor of vague generality. Just one little something.
A friend of mine who was an outstanding painter of great imagination told me he does opposites.
In a very photo-realistic landscape painting he will add two small areas that, as he put it, "Make no sense at all; maybe two nonsense colors."
I asked him why. He said, "To remind the viewer somebody PAINTED it. It is a way of reminding them I was there."
But, niside of a non-realistic painting he would insert something ultra-photo perfect; some very small something.
He said, "It makes the viewer participate. Holds them for a beat longer."
Terry: Were you aware of the Emo Phillip comedy routine with a similar plot? Or is this something that has been given treatment by numerous writers.
Don't know. Not familiar with the reference.
My theory is that most ideas are triggered in alot of people for the same reasons. Did you know that two people "invented" Calculus at about the same moment in history? Yeah. Spooky, huh? Leibnez and Newton. I think Leibnez was probably pissed off when Newton's was adopted.
Newton invented calculus first though he called it "fluxions" in the mid 1660s. However he did not publish this work as he was a bit eccentric apparently but his notes from that time were taken as some amount of proof (no pun intended)
Leibniz came up with essentially the same idea, independant of Newton and wrote his paper on it in 1684, sometime later. He coined the phrase "calculus".
The controversy over who invented it first was a matter of much debate in the day but credit seems to go to both for their independant discoveries
Terry,
Your treatment was good. Just wondering about the story source. The internet is proof that there is nothing new under the sun.
Terry,
Your treatment was good. Just wondering about the story source. The internet is proof that there is nothing new under the sun.
There was a joke told by Dean Martin that I'd thought about. Then, listening to the Prarie Home Companion joke show, a similar joke was told.
I thought the sudden change of POV would make an eerie story.
I went to Starbucks and wrote it up. Took maybe....um...half an hour.
My daughter has pointed up some flaws in construction. I see her point. I should have spent my time on plotting more carefully.
