Hi again,
Recently I was trawling through my old instagram posts and I came across an experiment I tried a couple of years ago and thought it might make for a good post.
It started out as a random free writing exercise trying to see if I could create a “found” story on scraps of paper and I just decided to keep it going - a bit like discovering diary entries in a video game and you have to hunt to piece together the complete story.
So each post had to tell a story without telling THE story - you’d have to follow and piece all the parts together for that. I was partially inspired by James Blatch (him of the Self Publishing Podcast and now of the Indie Writers Club when he mentioned a few times about how art needs to be perceived and interpreted by the receiver for it to realise it's value - in this case I think the missing elements of the story allow the reader to take and make of the story what they want by adding their own narrative (or am I just talking complete bollocks).
Anyway regardless if all that it was interesting to try and make each scene work as a complete unit including an inciting incident, progressive complications, a value change and a resolution (minus the obligatory typo’s of course).
Here’s the original posts - enjoy.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
I actually created an alternative version of this post - see below, with the note about how just changing the last line can give the story a completely different twist.
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Did it work? That's for the comments to decide. Did I have fun? Yes. Was it a worthwhile writing practice? I think so. Will I do it again? Most likely.
I love the pieces of this story, and presented on the paper bag remnants is visually cool. I am a bit unsure about how it ends, as I’m not catching the meaning of what “she wants” and what the son has to do. I think the experiment is a success however and I hope you do it again.