The Light Bulb Factor
Ideas..... Ideas..... I had to create an idea for each triad, knitting them into forming a concept, and conclusively form a pitchable story out of that concept through my story telling skills and extra factors like presentation skills etc. That was all secondary it seemed, for right now, the only thing that mattered, really, was creating ideas out of the triads and then forming concepts out of it and knitting it into stories.
I took the first three words I had written down:
Old Lady, Soccer, Raindrops.
Now what kind of story can that form?
Inspiration came to me instantly. Our sensei showed us awesome videos about unique ways of communicating out ideas to the world. He called these as mediums of communication. Wow, that was inspiring indeed. I mean, people use sand to convey the idea of a city!! Okay, now that I was inspired enough, it was time to knit a story!
Think. I need that light bulb right now, I thought, the one that sparks ideas into cartoon characters' brains.
But hey, those were cartoons for a fact that they were fictitious...
An old lady tries to play soccer in the rain and dies....
No, that wasn't what you'd call an inspirational idea, really... So, I rejected that thought out of my mind the moment it appeared.
What should I do? Then I got an idea (No, not any light bulb idea, just a fairly simple one...) and went to sensei to tell him my first story about an old lady who becomes a soccer star.
"Think about more stories, it's just one you got there." He said something like that, I'm not so sure.... But the point was that I should think of another cool story.
On went the process of creating a story on the basis of each of the triads. And on went the rejections. One after another, my ideas and concepts were showcased, and one by one, they were wilted away by the one word: No.
Okay, how's this? I asked sensei, as I told him, "There's this guy who doesn't like to eat much, and he discovers a magical notebook that sends what he doesnt like onto someone else's plate!"
That was a bit better, I felt, as sensei asked me to reserve that idea and chock up some more.
Yes, the light bulb factor finally shone!
I think that was a kind of inspiration, as sir's final "proceed with more" phrase had driven new and nicer thoughts onto my head.
In a matter of minutes, I got three more stories reserved by sensei, and it was time to once again get myself home. As I left, sensei told us that the next day, we had to "tell" three stories, and that if we were lucky enough to have thought of a good story, he'd approve one of them for the grand climax. So i headed home, thinking about the next day's presentation.
Hello, traffic!
Ideas..... Ideas..... I had to create an idea for each triad, knitting them into forming a concept, and conclusively form a pitchable story out of that concept through my story telling skills and extra factors like presentation skills etc. That was all secondary it seemed, for right now, the only thing that mattered, really, was creating ideas out of the triads and then forming concepts out of it and knitting it into stories.
I took the first three words I had written down:
Old Lady, Soccer, Raindrops.
Now what kind of story can that form?
Inspiration came to me instantly. Our sensei showed us awesome videos about unique ways of communicating out ideas to the world. He called these as mediums of communication. Wow, that was inspiring indeed. I mean, people use sand to convey the idea of a city!! Okay, now that I was inspired enough, it was time to knit a story!
Think. I need that light bulb right now, I thought, the one that sparks ideas into cartoon characters' brains.
But hey, those were cartoons for a fact that they were fictitious...
An old lady tries to play soccer in the rain and dies....
No, that wasn't what you'd call an inspirational idea, really... So, I rejected that thought out of my mind the moment it appeared.
What should I do? Then I got an idea (No, not any light bulb idea, just a fairly simple one...) and went to sensei to tell him my first story about an old lady who becomes a soccer star.
"Think about more stories, it's just one you got there." He said something like that, I'm not so sure.... But the point was that I should think of another cool story.
On went the process of creating a story on the basis of each of the triads. And on went the rejections. One after another, my ideas and concepts were showcased, and one by one, they were wilted away by the one word: No.
Okay, how's this? I asked sensei, as I told him, "There's this guy who doesn't like to eat much, and he discovers a magical notebook that sends what he doesnt like onto someone else's plate!"
That was a bit better, I felt, as sensei asked me to reserve that idea and chock up some more.
Yes, the light bulb factor finally shone!
I think that was a kind of inspiration, as sir's final "proceed with more" phrase had driven new and nicer thoughts onto my head.
In a matter of minutes, I got three more stories reserved by sensei, and it was time to once again get myself home. As I left, sensei told us that the next day, we had to "tell" three stories, and that if we were lucky enough to have thought of a good story, he'd approve one of them for the grand climax. So i headed home, thinking about the next day's presentation.
Hello, traffic!
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