Secret Admirer

 

You or your character has a secret admirer. How do you know this?  What do you do to find out who it is? Do you find out? How are you changed by this?

Character

Think about both the person who is admired and the admirer. What do you know about them physically, intellectually and emotionally? What is their personality like? What is their greatest fear and what is their greatest desire? What do they want and what do they need? You probably know about both characters.  The admired person doesn’t know about the admirer, but they admirer does know about the admired.  

Story

What happens first? How does the story build? Think of perhaps three growing complexities. How is the admiration expressed? Is it pleasant or sinister for the admired person? How do things come to a head? What does the protagonist do about it?

Will your story have au upbeat or dark ending?

Form

Will you write a story, script or poem?  Or has this actually happened to you? Can you write a piece of memoir?

You can also turn it all on its head and write the story from the point of view of the admirer. Or could you show both points of view?

Fabulous show

 

Article ideas:

·         Write about the best show you’ve ever been to. 

·         Write an article about a theatre or concert hall you love

·         Write about why you love or hate live entertainment

·         Research why we have theatre (Aristotle? Socrates?)

 

Poem:

·         Try to record the atmosphere of a theatre or concert hall.

·         Capture the excitement of attending a live performance

·         Could you write a song or two to turn a straight play into a musical? (Don’t  worry we won’t ask you to sing it though you can if you like) 

 

Script:

·         Write a sketch about a theatre / concert hall visit.

·         Write a five to ten minute sketch about a creative writing group that isn’t as nice as ours

·         Shakespeare peppered his plays with “masques” – plays within plays. Can you create a masque?

      

Story:

·         Write a story about a character who goes to the theatre for the first time.  What do they see? What does the theatre seem like to them? Does it change them?

·         Write a story about a performance that goes wrong

·         Write a story about the village amateur dramatic group – who eventually put on a fabulous show.