Three Proposals

I believe that discovering WHAT story you will write will be one of the most difficult things that you will have to accomplish this semester. And unfortunately, you need to discover it RIGHT AWAY.

 A few of you have come into the class with a clear sense of what you would like to write so this part of the semester may seem easier. I would ask you to still engage with these first assignments with as much vigor as your classmates.

 Sometimes it is wise to save our very favorite ideas for our SECOND script, meaning we should build skills this semester on a different story. I do want you to include the idea you hope to write in your three proposals, but I do not want you to finally settle on it until you’ve had a bit of feedback and worked to come up with several more ideas. You will use your Weekly Eight for this assigment.

Your three proposals should include (for each) a title, a teaser and a long paragraph that describes the world of the story, the key characters, the main actions that drive the story forward, the climax and the resolution.  Your proposal should also communicate the TONE of your story, the genre of it and even suggest some comparison plays or movies that have some things in common with your script.  You can even COMBINE two stories or movies in order to communicate the unique way that your story straddles genre, tone or story type.