I present to you another interactive story game/exercise just for the hell of it.
The rules are fairly straightforward but it does require a fair amount of creativity on your part. I will present to you a short story that is rather bland in details and description. Your job is to rewrite the story in an alternate genre using literary techniques and the kinds of descriptions commonly used in that particular genre.
For instance, If I said:
"Jimmy was jogging in the park when he spotted a rock. He went over and picked it up. Then Jimmy threw the rock into the pond."
If I wrote it in an action genre, I could retell it like thus:
"Jimmy was running intensely down the cement pathway, sweat streaming all down his face and soaking his shirt. He realized he had never ran this fast since back in 'Nam when he was dodging machine gun fire, shot by crazed gunman. Suddenly, something caught the corner of his eye and he froze stiff. A rock. Jim's worst enemy. Unable to know what to do, he froze in his spot, furiously running through his mind all the ways he could be able to escape this dire situation. Jim knew he had to act and act fast. Jim suddenly ran blazingly fast toward the accursed stone. He grasped the rock for a split second and hurled it into the nearby pond in a single fluid motion. The stone splashed as it broke the surface of the water and sunk into the dark depths. Panting, Jim felt relieved, knowing that he had dispensed of one more evil rock in this world."
Or I could write it in a Romance genre:
"On a lovely spring day, young Jimmy pranced down the park walkway. He was thinking passionately of his love waiting at home, eager to once again grace her presence. Jim then spyed a rock sitting in the grass. Jim thought how pretty the stone was and decided to pick it up. Jimmy then thrust the rock high up into the air where it eclipsed the sun for a brief moment before plunging back to earth, hitting the water and creating thousands of glistening drops. Jim sighed and thought how simply beautiful the sight was."
Something along those lines.
Heres a few tips/guidelines to follow:
-Go crazy with detail! The more descriptive the better. The whole point of this exercise is to enhance the details in a bland story, which will no doubt
-Try to keep the same chain of events in your story as in the original story, but please enhance the details of the actions as much as you please!
-Work hard on your stories! These will be short story length and some effort should be put into it. The goal of this exercise is to improve your writing abilities, NOT to pump out some 2 minute crap.
-Provide motive for actions! I will give little reasoning for some of the actions. This is done purposefully to incite creativity and is a major part of coming up with details in the story.
-Be sure to state at the beginning what genre you are rewriting the story as.
-No blatantly sexual stories for the sake of trolling. Honestly, people...
Some genre ideas ranging from the typical to the unique:
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Horror
Documentary/informative
Western
Slapstick
Musical
Sitcom
Soap opera
And come up with some more genre ideas of your own!!!
And now...the story to rewrite off of:
"Steven stepped out of his house to go for a walk. He walked down the sideway towards the ice cream store. He stepped inside and ordered an ice cream cone. He walked outside of the ice cream store and crossed the street into the park. Someone threw a frisbee towards him and he caught it. Steven then threw the frisbee back. Steven then decided to visit his friend Amy. He walked to her house and knocked on the door. She let him in and they chatted for a while. It was getting late so Steven said good bye to Amy and headed home. On the way home, he passed a newspaper stand. He chatted with the newpaper man a little bit and then Steven bought a magazine and left. Steven finally got home and opened the door. His dog greeted him and Steven sat down on his couch and watched TV. THE END"
You can definately improve on that, can't you? Now GET TO REWRITIN'!
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