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Content Outline Website for : Thirteen Writing Prompts
Thirteen Writing Prompts
By Dan Wiencek
1.
Write a scene showing a man and a woman arguing over the man’s friendship with a former girlfriend. Do not mention the girlfriend, the man, the woman, or the argument.
Collage: assets - man, woman, girlfriend, setting of... , actions – argument
2.
Write a short scene set at a lake, with trees and shit. Throw some birds in there, too.
Collage: Assets – lake, trees, shit, setting of...
3.
Choose your favorite historical figure and imagine if he/she had been led to greatness by the promptings of an invisible imp living behind his or her right ear. Write a story from the point of view of this creature. Where did it come from? What are its goals? Use research to make your story as accurate as possible.
Collage: Assets – historical figure, imp, setting of... , actions/themes – research, greatness
4.
Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon.
Collage: Assets – Woman, dead horse, hot-air balloon, setting of... , actions – look at horse, get into balloon, balloon takes off
5.
A wasp called the tarantula hawk reproduces by paralyzing tarantulas and laying its eggs into their bodies. When the larvae hatch, they devour the still living spider from the inside out. Isn’t that fucked up? Write a short story about how fucked up that is.
Collage: Assets – wasp (tarantula hawk), tarantula, larvae, setting of... , actions – laying eggs, paralysis, devouring
6.
Imagine if your favorite character from 19th-century fiction had been born without thumbs. Then write a short story about them winning the lottery.
Collage: Assets – fiction character, no thumbs, lottery setting of... , actions – winning lottery
7.
Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bills from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinating into a tin bucket.
Collage: Assets – man, young girl, $100 bills, car, tin bucket, setting of... , actions – throwing money, speeding car, urinating
8.
A husband and wife are meeting in a restaurant to finalize the terms of their impending divorce. Write the scene from the point of view of a busboy snorting cocaine in the restroom.
Collage: Assets – husband, wife, busboy, cocaine, setting of restaurant, restroom , actions/themes – snorting cocaine, divorce
9.
Think of the most important secret your best friend has ever entrusted you with. Write a story in which you reveal it to everyone. Write it again from the point of view of your friend. Does she want to kill you? How does she imagine doing it? Would she use a gun, or something crueler and more savage, like a baseball bat with nails in it?
Collage: Assets – two friends, crowd or pile of individuals, weapons?, setting of... , actions – secret telling, murder
10.
Popular music is often a good source of writing inspiration. Rewrite Bob Dylan’s “Visions of Johanna” as a play.
Collage: Assets – Bob Dylan, Guitar, Ghostlike Woman, setting of... , actions – playing music, drifting ghost
11.
Write a short scene in which one character reduces another to uncontrollable sobs without touching him or speaking.
Collage: Assets – two characters, setting of... , actions – something? sobbing
12.
Your main character finds a box of scorched human hair. Whose is it? How did it get there
Collage: Assets – character, box w/ human hair, magnifying glass, setting of... , actions/themes - mystery
13.
A man has a terrifying dream in which he is being sawn in half. He wakes to find himself in the Indian Ocean, naked and clinging to a door; a hotel keycard is clenched in his teeth. Write what happens next.
Collage: Assets – man laying down, naked man, saw, door, hotel keycard, setting -circus tent, indian ocean , actions –man sawed in half, clinging to door in ocean
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Dan Wiencek (About)
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Moodboard for McSweeney’s Article
Antique photography collage with monochrome gradient maps
Set up ridiculous and absurd scenes to depict each writing prompt
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This is another good example of a unified approach to breaking content into distinct segments. The constant scroll with obvious separation between aspects could work very well for the 13 prompts. I like that the design objects have a consistent mode of display but the title portion allows for something different.
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This could be an excellent style for my McSweeney’s article. I like the swiping, to have distinct pages and order to the 13 writing prompts. Possibly text, then image, text, image, etc... I also like the simplicity of the vibrant graphic illustrations for the title page of each chapter. This is a really fun way to display creative writing in a blog-esque manner.
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Visual Components
CUT-OUTS:
5-7 page-like images of what Raleway isn't
Matt McInemey, Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida (or three rando dudes)
Bottom-half of page Audience clapping
KABUKI (photo? Full page illustration?)
KAYAK s.a.a.
KEEKER: scene with nude woman inside house. Keekers face shows up in window from the outside. Eyes get big
WIZARD (with one separate arm for whapping)
WHAPPING wooden club
WURZEL root vegetable with a face?
Eyeballs (LARGE)
Arm for pushing text off page
Pablo Neruda with two arms
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ANNOUNCER
Wait a tic! Sure, all this is great, but I’ve got something better…. INTRODUCING RALEWAY!!!
Fast Voice: Typeface designed by Matt McInemey in 2010. Expanded by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida in 2012. Raleway is not recommended for use with bad graphic design. If you are a bad designer, please do not use this typeface.
RALEWAY is PERFECT, for words, with, K’s ……. & W’s ……..
If you’re talking about, KABUKI, KAYAKs, or KEEKERs, or writing about WIZARDS WHAPPING WURZELS, You KNOW what typeface to use.
K's and W's are great, but they won't even get you through one word, just the two of 'em.
Fast Voice:: Raleway does come equipped with all the letters in the English Alphabet. If you lose a letter, it's not our fault. Replicas may be acquired after filing all correct forms with the Fraternity of Flaky Fonts.
Thin, Thin Italic, Extra-Light, Extra-Light Italic, Light, Light Italic, Regular, Regular Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Semi-Bold, Semi-Bold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra-Bold, Extra-Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic................... (fades out and yawns)
Achem, mooooooving on...
Female Voice:: El Poeta
Antes anduve por la vida, en medio de un amor doloroso: antes retuve una pequeña página de cuarzo clavándome los ojos en la vida. Compré bondad, estuve en el mercado de la codicia, respiré las aguas más sordas de la envidia, la inhumana hostilidad de máscaras y seres. Viví un mundo de ciénaga marina en que la flor de pronto, la azucena me devoraba en su temblor de espuma, y donde puse el pie resbaló mi alma hacia las dentaduras del abismo. Así nació mi poesía, apenas rescatada de ortigas, empuñada sobre la soledad como un castigo, o apartó en el jardín de la impudicia su más secreta flor hasta enterrarla. Aislado así como el agua sombría que vive en sus profundos corredores, corrí de mano en mano, al aislamiento de cada ser, al odio cuotidiano, Supe que así vivían, escondiendo la mitad de los seres, como peces del más extraño mar, y en las fangosas inmensidades encontré la muerte. La muerte abriendo puertas y caminos. La muerte deslizándose en los muros.
Raleway is fully functional in all 104 written Latin languages.
Use it! Whatever your design need RALEWAY is your solution.
Get it! Three easy payments of zero dollars and zero pennies. Find it at a Web Browser near you.
AUDIENCE
oohs and aahs
intrigue
audience member: “quite elegant for a sans serif wouldn't you say? Look at those curves.”
cheers and claps
aaaaabbbcccdddeeefffggghhhiiijjjkkkkkklllmmmnnooppqqqqrrrssstttuuuvvvwwwwwwwwwxxxyyyzzzzzzz
SOUND:
Images being dropped on surface
screeching breaks with crash?
Twinkle
Kabuki sound
Kayak sound
Keeker sound
Wizard Whapping Wurzel sound (strange man mumbling/grunting?)
Operatic chorus moment
whizzing sound
and others I’m suuuure
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Raleway Goes for a Ride with the Garden Animal Dancing Circus
Scene 1:
VISUAL: visual survey of what Raleway isn’t
SOUND: audience oohs and aahs. Books being dropped on surface. Screeching to a halt with breaks…
SCRIPT: “Wait a tic, sure, all this is great, but I’ve got something better…. INTRODUCING RALEWAY!!!”
VISUAL: full screen with texture flashing back and forth with white RALEWAY neg/pos. Sparkles when audience member says “curves” as names are mentioned, cut-outs slide up from bottom of screen. “Not for use with bad design”
SOUND: Audience voices intrigue as designers pop onto screen...
SCRIPT: fast voice: “Raleway is a typeface designed by Matt McInemey in 2010, expanded by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida in 2012. (someone from the audience says “quite elegant for a sans serif wouldn't you say, and look at those curves...”) Raleway is not recommended for use with bad graphic design. If you are a bad designer, please do not use this typeface.”
VISUAL: screen flashing with “applause” cut-out audience appears sliding up from top
SOUND: silence for a second or two, then audience cheers and claps
Scene 2:
VISUAL: Hardcut into blank screen as clapping abruptly stops. RALEWAY on full screen play with the word through script emphasis… fill screen with K’s and W’s
SCRIPT: RALEWAY is Perfect, for words, with, K’s ……. & W’s ……..
If you’re talking about, KABUKI, KAYAKs, or KEEKERs, a keeker is someone who peeps,
such as a peeping tom, or when writing about WIZARDS WHAPPING WURZELS…
VISUAL: Kabuki image, white KABUKI, Kayak image, white KAYAK, Keeker image (animated with peeping Tom), white KEEKER… Animate WIZARD (appear) WHAPPING (appear) WURZELS (appear)
SOUND: Chinese theatre sound (or sword?), water sound, creepy keeker sound… audience reacts to keeker. Sounds for WIZARDS WHAPPING WURZELS as they appear, sound of the wurzel being whapped and a man mumbling/grunting
SCRIPT: You, KNOW, what typeface, to use.
VISUAL: matches last script phrase with cut out person eyes rolling back and forth K and W in KNOW emphsized.
Scene 3:
VISUAL: Hard cut to: “But wait! That's not all! There's more! Look!” Different phrases come sliding in from opposite sides, ends on “LOOK!” flashing pos/neg huge across whole screen. Eyeballs open and look down inside the o's. Camera pans down into blank screen...
SCRIPT: K's and W's are great, but they won't even get you through one word, just the two of 'em.
VISUAL: big K, big W wit little ones floating around them. Hard cut to whole alphabet flies across screen, line by line (different speeds?), middle letter is always bigger... pans through different weights and styles, slows down through the k's and w's
SOUND: operatic voice when flashing LOOK! whirring sound, or wind
SCRIPT: crowd says: aaaaabbbcccdddeeefffggghhhiiijjjkkkkkklllmmmnnooppqqqqrrrssstttuuuvvvwwwwwwwwwxxxyyyzzzzzzz (voice-over on top of alphabet sound: fast voice: Raleway does come equipped with all the letters in the English Alphabet. If you lose a letter, it's not our fault. Replicas may be acquired after filing all correct forms with the fraternity of flaky font.
VISUAL: List out all styles and weights of RALEWAY maybe building and rotating with stacking and paragraph form? Follows voice with speed and then speeds up when scriptor realizes he's drifting.
SCRIPT: fast voice: reads through list of styles and weights drifting off and slowing down, then yawning
Scene 4:
VISUAL: cut-out hand comes in from side and pushes the stacked styles off screen.
SCRIPT: “achem, mooooove on shall we?”
SOUND: audience clapping
SCRIPT: female voice speaking in Spanish, poetry from Pablo Neruda
VISUAL: cut-out of Pablo presenting first line in poem then focus on diacritics to survey many that are available in Raleway.
SOUND: spanish guitar? Abrupt end to guitar and poetry
SCRIPT: Raleway is fully functional in all 104 written Latin languages. Use it! Whatever your design need RALEWAY is your solution, Get it! Three easy payments of zero dollars and zero pennies. Find it at a Web Browser near you.
VISUAL: abrupt end to diacritics. 104 languages... USE IT... GET IT...
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