Sunday, 19 July 2009

"Guess what?"

"Guess what?" He asked enthusiastically.
"What?" She responded somewhat cautiously.
"We're doing dialogue at Penheads next sess." He grinned waiting for her response.
"Hmmmm" She said, "Not my favourite topic but... Hey didn't we do dialogue a few sessions ago?"
"We did and that produced some great results so we thought we do it again only differently."
"Ok, how's it gonna work this time...?"
"Well it came out of discussion brought up by Ellise about twittering and how a book plot can be summarised in less than 200 words (or whatever magic number of words a twitter is limited to). We thought it'd be interesting to see what we'd all come up with, given the same basic plot (in twitter form)."
"Given the diverse writing styles of Penheads you mean?"
"Yeah - something like that."
"From memory, I think Martina said she'd bring along a twitter plot."
"So what's that got to do with dialogue?"
"Well someone suggested introducing a couple of characters that have found themselves immersed in aforementioned twitter plot. We thought it'd be interesting (that word again) if the characters had no relationship prior to their introduction, so Chris and Helen volunteered to bring along short descriptions of characters that have allegedly never met before."
"How long did you guys think about this one?"
"Not that long actually, it all seemed to flow quite naturally. And then it was Helen, I think, who came up with the idea of writing using dialogue."
"Nice one Helen!!!"
"And guess what again?"
"What now?"
"Given Martina, Chris and Helen are bringing our source material you don't need to bring a thing."
"Cool."
"Yeah I thought you'd be happy about that."
"Hey see you Wednesday night at Council House."
"Yep looking forward to it - let me know if you can't make it."

Gary

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