Cultural
Mash – Time, Place, & Characterization Details (Writing Exercise)
- Think of your teen
years. Brainstorm a list of all of the specific things that you find as
culturally relevant to the times. Nouns (people, events), short speech
phrases, and appropriate adjectives that describe the era.
- Example:
1980s Shoulder Pads Short shorts Bowl Haircuts Synthesizers Reagan
LA
Looks leotards Goonies Yugo Flowbee Michael Keaton Dude
Cocaine Richard Simmons B-horror films John Cusack Exxon
Valdez Hairbands
·
The key to the exercise to try to get out
culturally associated details that you can integrate into a story to help
create solid verisimilitude without having to try too hard …
o Adding
such specific details helps with various elements, especially: setting,
character, dialogue, and plot.
No comments:
Post a Comment