PROMPT TWENTY-SIX –
SKEWED VIEW
This prompt
is based on writing a story from a radically different point of view, like that
of an insect, or an alien, or even a stuffed animal. Andy Griffith started his
comedic career this way when he did “What it was, was football.” The subject
matter can be a common, every-day item like a family vacation.
Here are
five unique POVs.
Moby Dick
from Moby Dick
The Mad
Hatter from Alice
The
portrait in The Picture of Dorian Gray
The brooms
in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Based on
the broom in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice I generated this pitch.
Stick Men - Broom marvels when he is brought to life. Before
he was nothing but a tool in someone else’s hands, but now he can act on his
own and he has purpose. The water has to be moved and he is just the one to do
it.
Then the
world goes crazy when the creator attacks him. Or perhaps it isn’t the world
that has gone insane – maybe it’s just the creator. A lowly broom may have no
chance against the mighty sorcerer, but that isn’t going to prevent him from
fulfilling his prime directive. And anything that gets in his way will pay the
price.
As part of
a challenge set by my critique group I used this method to write Red Christmas.
It’s a short story about what would happen if Santa was a communist. My wife
hated the story and made me write “normal” Christmas stories every year after
that for the family celebration.
No comments:
Post a Comment