May
9th
Wed
9th
A tale in many parts:
- I wanted to generate a list of ideas I could use to start scenes or, at least, inspire them.
- To do so, I played word association by myself in my notebook.
- You guys have an improv notebook, right? One you carry everywhere with a couple pens, right?
- I did this on the bus/metro on my daily commute over a couple days. Though it must be noted, my handwriting does not improve appreciably on stationary stationery.
- The ink from my pen doesn’t dry fast enough to prevent smudging. Sorry.
- I scratched out a couple I thought I had duplicated. I haven’t checked it for doubles, typos or anything else.
- Armchair psychologists, have your way with me.
- I recommend this exercise. It worked easily for some stretches and gave me pause at a few others. Mostly it flowed quite well, a couple times I was upset my stop had arrived and had to break my flow.
- I rejected a few words that came to me because I always had one criterion to meet before writing down words: could I improvise a song from this suggestion? If yes, down it went. If no, I associated from the idea I rejected.
Fin.
- vinny
