Please, please, please, please, please feel a suggestion. Suggestions are launching points, not beats you need to hit. If you get a suggestion, "dynamite," you don't have to have a scene about finding dynamite, or losing your hand to dynamite, or selling dynamite on the black market to feed your starving family.Instead of cut and pasting dynamite, be aware of how dynamite makes you feel. Does it scare you? Dynamite can be unstable, does that make you nervous? Would you be proud to own dynamite? Ashamed?
Notice the wealth of emotion that comes from "dynamite?" You can enter a scene fearless, unstable, nervous, proud, or ashamed, and it all can be traced to dynamite. Responding emotionally to the suggestion, frees you up. Ditch dynamite, and go with emotion.
Let the audience catch up with your creativity. If they understand the leap you made, great. If they don't it's OK too. Truth is, the audience will never leave a show ranting, "they never used the word dynamite!" They will, however, rip a show with awful scene work, even if you peppered with a dozen dynamites.
Tap into your emotion. It's very liberating.
oh my god cousin, if i had some dynamite i would quickly jump a plane to reno where i would proceed to use it as a sexual apparatus on some young hooker.
ReplyDeleteI think that is still cutting and pasting, Elbows.
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