Friday, July 22, 2016

Dream ideas

Last night I dreamed about a class that was given a writing assignment involving notebooks which were partially, sparsely filled in. Every ten pages or so, they included a page which featured a doodle or an entry from a fictional character or a note written by one of that character's friends. The entries were cryptic enough that they could be interpreted in multiple ways, and never revealed the identity. The job of the writer was to flesh out that character by using those entries as writing prompts; deciding what they meant and who the person was, and creating a fictional story (or multiple stories) around them. They were supposed to write in first person, taking on their identity.

I think that would actually be a cool project and those notebooks should exist in real life.