On Wed. the class had a discussion over what storytelling is: the basic parts of storytelling and what makes a good story. The basic parts of storytelling consist of the beginning, middle, end, plot, characters, theme, etc. A good story contains drama, humor and different types of genres, such as adventure, drama, romance, mystery, thriller-horror, etc. Next, we had everyone share their homework of having 3 different pictures forming an unwritten story. The concept became a bit more complicated than I had originally thought as the class discussed everyone's homework. My 3 pictures only have places; it need people to make it a successful storytelling. The homework is to choose one image and think of 10 words/phrases to have different meanings for it. Not exactly my strong suit as I'm more of an obvious person than witty per se, but I'll see how it goes.
The class still had time after the storytelling lecture and activities, so we watched a video from TED - Technology Entertainment Designer with Elizabeth, author of "Eat, Pray, Love", as guest speaker on creative process. She was very entertaining and inspiring, I can see how she can be an excellent writer. The origin of the creative idea was based on Greece as "daemons" and Rome as spirits, both as separate beings from humans. This is best as it would be too much for one individual. Getting aid from God helps lessen the pressure on people. Some creative process comes unexpectedly with no source and appear fleetingly. She encouraged the creative minds to live and not on negative assumption. Don't be worried of past successes or other people's negative comments, just do work and be stubborn to stick to it through and through.
By the way, Jimmy was still his energetic self so he's doing okay. But I noticed that he didn't have his usual coffee, so he must have still been a bit sick. Random info: "jimmy" in British means "condom." @_@ I'm so thankful now that my name is a bit complicated.
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