I was just telling my husband about an exercise we did in one of my college acting classes, where we'd take a scene we were working on and handwrite all the dialogue out, omitting punctuation and stage directions. Then we worked on the scene with our partners without any "help" from the original text as to the dynamics or pacing. We had to feel that part out for ourselves. It was really cool.
Thanks for sharing this, Andrei! It was very dark, but I dug that.
Ohhh, now this is a story in the making, isn't it? I loved what you did with that. An incidental sausage and a wow of a look at a life...
Hilarious in parts! The narrator is quite a grumpy person indeed. Cool exercise.
I've found this story quite strange... without puntuation marks, it was a bit difficult for me to understand it. But, well it was a good exercise 😉
I loved this, it has so much charge to it! Reminds me of some of Eleanor Anstruther's writing, I think you might enjoy her
There's a real power to this kind of writing. I'm a fan of long long sentences when they serve a purpose. This was strong, Andrei! Great job.
I was just telling my husband about an exercise we did in one of my college acting classes, where we'd take a scene we were working on and handwrite all the dialogue out, omitting punctuation and stage directions. Then we worked on the scene with our partners without any "help" from the original text as to the dynamics or pacing. We had to feel that part out for ourselves. It was really cool.
Thanks for sharing this, Andrei! It was very dark, but I dug that.
It’s astounding what emerges when we write unbounded