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    Steps for writing a “surreal” creative piece – Play

    script or a story

    THE IDEA. We're not all Tennessee Williams or JK Rowling -

    sometimes taking a while to go over the idea in your head first is the best

    way to go about writing your play/story. You don't necessarily need to

    know character, setting, theme, or dialogue yet - you just need to get

    inspired.

    THE PLOT. A play/story that has no plot is certainly not going to be the

    most interesting thing to watch! Turn your idea into a story - a traditional

    three-phase arc (Action/ climax/resolution) is the typical play format, but

    absurdist and abstract ways of structuring a play are good too. The first

    thing to do is to write a short (no more than a paragraph!) overview of

    your play/story. What is going to happen? What is the conflict? Who is

    the protagonist? Ask yourself: Is this a good idea? Is it an interesting

    story? Get another class member to read it over.

    THE FORMAT. Decide upon the best way to structure your play/story

    and decide how the events of the story are going to fit into these

    divisions.
    THE ROUGH DRAFT. Write a preliminary "sketch" of the play/story, the

    base version. Just write the scenes that come to your head. Try to make

    the dialogue flow believably and distinguish characters and settings.

    Give your characters motivation. Let them develop a life of their own.

    DRAFTING. You will have to edit. Writers often write four or five drafts of

    the same script/story to polish it up, divide the scenes/chapters right and

    get your characters and plot all sorted out. Make sure everything is

    cohesive, conclusive, interesting and natural.

    GET FEEDBACK. Submit your play to a class member - get someone

    who you know will give you an honest opinion. Take their advice to

    heart, but don't be crushed if someone says they don't like it. Everyone

    is entitled to their own opinion.

    RE-EVALUATE. With the readers' feedback in mind, go over the

    play/story one more time. Polish up any consistency, characterization,

    grammatical and formatting errors. (If its a play script - make up a

    characters list, a short description of the setting, a short description of

    the time, and the sets required)

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