Round Up: Week Twelve

Last Week’s Prompt:

Got to where you keep your DVD’s/Movies. Close your eyes and pick a random disk out of the pile.  Play the first disk and press fast forward, as fast as possible. Count to 30 veeeeeeerrrrry sllllloooooowwwwwllllyy and then press play.

Watch for five minutes.

Your story has to be either the prequel to what you watched ending with the plot of the five minutes that you watched, or beginning with what you watched and ending in any way you want.

You cannot just rewrite what the movie did. The story you tell should be an alternate reality to what the movie is. Fanfiction is welcome.  

Amanda

My movie was Hercules (the Disney version) and I landed on the scene where he wants to figure out where he belongs, then he goes on a journey singing "Go the Distance". My story is pretty loosely based on the plot with just the essential elements- a young man feels lost and alone and needs to get away to discover more about life and truth. My young man feels isolated from his family and his community because of differences in belief and the persecution of Father Doyle, so he leaves for America, where he joins the Mormons in Kirtland, Ohio.

This story follows the pattern of the lives of many early Mormon pioneers, but I thought of my great (x3) grandfather in particular- a young man from County Down, Ireland whose family disowned him when he joined the Mormon church so he left for America.

MY VOTE: Kylie

Korrin

My show is called The Storyteller and is it a masterpiece put out by Jim Henson. I got the greek myths part of it and the story of Daedalus.  I forwarded it to the sad part where he totally murders his nephew and I had a hard time doing it because of how sad it is.  Luckily my friends helped and I think it turned out pretty well.  I didn’t want to give them names because changing Greek names into modern times sounded too hard, and I don’t think it took anything away from the story.

MY VOTE: Amanda

Kylie

My movie was Jurassic Park, and I landed on the famous T-Rex chase scene.

Dinosaurs are great. They’re cute, huggable, and completely bloodthirsty. What’s not to love about their inevitable path of destruction and dead bodies littered in their wake? Although Jurassic Park already did a fantastic job of highlighting precisely why dinosaurs are some of the scariest things of all time, I wanted to make them scary for a different reason. There’s a different level of fear that comes with not expecting a dinosaur to appear, rather than “I am literally on Dinosaur Island WHAT COULD GO WRONG.”

My story is also partially based off the legends of the mokele-mbembe. Given, it isn’t a T-Rex, but the legend of a dinosaur that lives in the African jungle was just too good to pass up.

MY VOTE: Korrin

Next Week’s Prompt:

This prompt is simple in theory, but a bit more complex to explain.

This week, we’re rewriting one of our old stories. We aren’t proofreading them and editing them, though. We are creating entirely new stories.

Some helpful hints:

--Imagine the story from another character’s point of view and how they might have interpreted events

--Make loose guidelines for your story. For example: Boy and girl meet, fall in love, go through tough times. Sound like the plot of The Hunger Games? Nope. But it still describes it.

--Find the biggest, most vibrant images in your piece. Elaborate on those. See where the story takes you based on those images.

Good luck and happy writing to you all!