Tuesday, October 1, 2013

The Most Difficult Kind of Conversation

Some of us may encounter this incredibly difficult and volatile situation in life. The way it ends, well that is what varies. Quick heads up, I have not experienced this.
Stereotypical male: "Honey, is there something wrong?"
Troubled female: "Yes actually..."
Stereotypical male: "Well, are you going to tell me?"
Troubled female: "Will you promise not to get angry?"
Stereotypical male: "Of course, I promise."
Troubled female: "I'm pregnant."
Stereotypical male: "Why would I get mad? That's great news!"
Troubled female: "It isn't yours..."
Stereotypical male: "......."
Troubled female: "Darling? Are you okay?"
The following scene is too graphic and/or unpredictable to be written for the audience. Due to the flexibility of the situation, comment your possible endings to the situation. It could be serious, funny, dark, a happy ending, anything really, I'm just curious to see what people will come up with.


Side note: I'm thinking about beginning a weekly story for this blog, comment with ideas for stories or tales and I will do my best, I even might make one long continuous story with weekly updates. Who knows?

6 comments:

  1. I liked the idea of the conversation because it's really funny how much that happens and could lead into a great story but the problem was that it didn't lead into a story so it kind of just cut the reader off like you want to know what happened which could be great if you had a "to be continued..." which could make your readers come back to find out what happened but without it your readers might think that you'll leave every story unfinished.

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    1. Honestly I was just a little lazy with this one. Plus that situation could get not school appropriate really quickly, and I wanted to avoid that.

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  2. I liked how you allowed for the readers to use their imagination throughout the dialogue, and the tone that you used contributed to your piece. However, I felt it was a little vague, and maybe could have used more of an ending or beginning. Overall, I thought it was a great piece, using a somewhat sarcastic tone like that can make the reader enjoy the text more.

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  3. I, actually, did not enjoy that you let readers chose an ending. I feel like there is too much a mix of very formal speech but also very colloquial language. I understand the comical, sarcastic tone of your own thoughts, but I didn't feel it fit for the conversation. But I loved the actual conversation, though it was short. It makes you giggle and smile, which is great. Maybe you could add to the conversation and add something more potent as a final idea.

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  4. A serial story? Hmmm, that sounds like a very interesting idea. I wonder, would you be open to a traveling story? In other words, a story that is written over many blogs with the audience having to follow along? Perhaps the parts being interchangeable? Hmmm. thoughts abrewing.

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    1. That's essentially the idea. I want to start as soon as possible, unfortunately I never have more than ten minutes to myself to actually start.

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