Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Creativity Workshop: Goals

As promised, here is the post where I outline my goals for the Creativity Workshop. These will be based on the issues and interests from my previous post. I am to select three of those items to focus on throughout the course of the workshop.

I have chosen to work on genre, emotion, and character variety.

Weeks 1-4: Genre

I will write four stories in four different genres (horror, sci-fi, western, and detective) linked by either theme or motif (which I haven't decided on yet).

I will accomplish this by researching the parameters of each genre, writing a general character and plot outline ahead of time, writing for at least 30 minutes per day.

Weeks 5-8: Emotion

I will write four stories exploring (at least) four different emotional extremes. I'm going to complicate this further by insisting with myself that these all be set in contemporary settings. I think I'll link them by having all the characters be members of the same family.

I will accomplish this by outlining the family and characters ahead of time, getting into an emotional mindset before I write, not being afraid of emotion while I'm writing.

Weeks 9-12: Character variety

I want to try to slip a twist past Merilee for this section of the workshop. Rather than writing four independent stories, I'm going to write one long story (perhaps four chapters?) about four different and distinctively drawn characters.

I will accomplish this by outlining plot, writing at least brief character studies, being mindful as I write of who each character is (personality, profession, back story, etc).

So there you have it. My Creativity Workshop goals.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Lovely, Margaret! And I certainly wouldn't reject your last idea - very creative ;)

Tessa said...

Wow very ambitious but it seems like a great way to work through all those issues!

Anonymous said...

Excellent, sounds like you've got a lot of great stuff to work on over the coming months - both challenging and exciting!

Stina said...

Great stuff! Good luck with your goals.

Chibi said...

The emotions one is very interesting and one I wouldn't have thought about. Your last idea is especially creative. Good luck with it.

Meredith said...

Wow. I like how creative you've been in developing the goals -- and how you've challenged yourself. :)

Elizabeth Mueller said...

Wow, I love your goals! I should do the same, but my goal is to thoroughly edit my WIPs for submission! Good luck. ;)