Exercise
1: Brainstorming Ideas
I spent quite a lot of time thinking about
this exercise. I carried a notepad with
me for a number of weeks, frantically scribbling down ideas and inspirations as
I came across them. Of course, this
method left me with a lot of ‘unusable’ scrawls, but below are a number of
ideas, which I would be keen to develop further.
1. In the aftermath of WWIII a man becomes
obsessed with inventing a time travel machine to undo the damage.
2. A solitary piece written about a man walking
at night who is plagued by supernatural forces.
My intention would be to write this piece as a monologue involving only
from the central character.
3. A businesswoman travels to North America
to meet a client in the remote northern reaches of Canada.
4. The life story of a lonely old lady as
she tries to piece together her life despite suffering from dementia.
5.
To explore the idea of a man’s journey ‘post-life’, thrown into a world
of ‘ghost agents’ who intervene with the world’s affairs. His only gateway to the world is the exact location
of his death.
6. A story focused around a magical family
as the monarchy eradicates magic from the land.
7.
Life of a family in Medieval England.
8. Aliens invading a small remote and
poverty-stricken town in Africa.
9. A story of the genetic experimentation
on a boy, with the aim of trying to accelerate growth and splicing skills to
create a super race.
10.
A catastrophic event cracks the world to the core. A man tries to cross
the world to find his family.
11.
The story of a secret Order, borne to protect the secrets locked in the compositions
of great musicians.
12. A modern retelling of the Greek myth of
Persephone and her descent into the underworld, seen through the eyes of a drug
addict.
13. A group of students travel to Peru in
search of tribes, but stumble across a community of travellers who got lost in
the jungles.
14. A young autistic girl struggles to
continue her life after the death of her sole carer.
15. The story of a group of school children
who accidentally stumble across a cure for cancer.
16. A man grows up in a world where human
development is a cycle of just 18 days from birth to death.
17.
A bright young student is given the opportunity to become one of a new
generation of world leaders and is given a place on a board of individuals
holding ultimate power over the world’s future.
Despite this list only having seventeen
fully formed ideas, I could have continued indefinitely in an attempt to ‘empty
out my brain of ideas’. However, these seventeen ideas are ones that
have been constantly cycling and developing in my mind.
I realise that at this stage, the
complexity involved in further developing some of these ideas would be a huge
undertaking. For example the research involved
in a piece containing elements of dementia and mental health would require a
large amount of research on my part so that I could accurately capture and
portray the feelings and experiences relating to this condition. However, as this task was simply to come up
with ideas for development, I wanted to include some of these more contextually
complex ideas.
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