Module A - Creative Writing (1 Viewer)

[aud]

For Revenge Tragedy, I wrote about a nerd who got framed by a cheerleader for killing her Greek literature lecturer, and was wrongly imprisoned... yea, it got a bit long and scattered, but in the end, the cheerleader died... in a dramatic scene a lot like the scene from Swimfan... without a guy jumping in the pool to save her... then the girl killed herself... but the whole piece was written in the form of a weekly diary entry, so the whole suicide was excusable

 

[jhakka]

Oh my god... Aud, that's an old guy hat in your av! I have one of those!

 

[Mays]

okies just a quick question...i didnt exactly quote the t.s eliot phrase but i sorta spoke about it generally during the ending of my peice...do u think thats ok...it wasnt really mentioned till my last paragraph reflection about order and the need to eliminate destruction and disturbances dfrom the universe (relating it to my crime)??... im having one of those moments that i always have... thinking that i didnt answer the qu.

 

[Elle3]

hehe, i didn't mind the creative one. The 'disturbing the universe' quote was a bit unexpected. I encorporated it through this chick detective who had it hanging in a frame on her wall that her dad (a detective also) gave to her as a present opening her agency (lame i know). then she investigated this case where some patient was killed on a ward cos they were testing drugs on him and being payed off by the drug company.... anyway she found the killer and was like "omg now i know what my dad meant" yada yada yada... i added clues about his medical history and documents and such. it was prob about 12 pages

 

[cynical]

man I started off with good intentions, talking about the effect of a butterfly flapping its wings and creating a tidal wave on the other side of the world (to get to the idea of changing the uninverse etc).. but I totally got off track and by the end of it i'd forgotten about the line completely, and never really tied it in.
Anyway my piece is Spec. Fiction, a diary-ish entry of a nine year old girl after the "Final War", which left Earth a dry desert filled with carbon monoxide and no rain or 'life'.. and the girl lives in a small community of survivors, and is being trained to breed. She talks about how she loves to listen to the rumours the older people tell of mutants who were affected by the nuclear weaponry used in the "Final War" and developed mutations to survive the atmosphere..
Then I more or less ran out of time and ended it with some lame 'oh the mutants are coming, gotta go' (not like that obviously).. I FORGOT THE DAMN QUOTE!

Not too happy.

 

[*rinney*]

omg mine was so shite...i made it up on the spot...it was a parody (i sought inspiration from real insp hound and *cough* monty python which i've been watchin like all week!)
anyway twas set in a place with "thick fog, water dripping and minimal lighting" ie you're made to think its a dark hardboiled street when it's actually a fricken sauna... and there's this deaf, but not dumb, detective who basically solves this crime by sheer coincidence and finds physical red herrings (like real fish etc) and lip reads all the suspects wrong etc etc...i thought that by doing a parody, inaccuracies in the plot would be "allowed" meh i'm glad crime fictions over. fuckin hate it...and i just realised i didnt incorporate that gay source of the dude with the magno glass into my essay at all. sick!

 

[carlybeth]

our exam hall had a noisy neighbour who listened to top 40 the whole exam.. and a car alarm went off, and there was a whole shitload of religious stuff on the walls, including "pray to jESUS, and he will bear your burden.." i still had to do the test
my story was about a guy named GODfrey, and he gets approached to fund a space exploration mission thingy, by a unnamed character, then, 120 yrs later the crew returns and the guy is missing, presumably still on the planet. GODfrey sends his offspring to find the guy, and upon reaching the planet realise that he has created a population devoted to their father. the eldest son steps forward and thanks Christian (the weird guy) and leaves with the dilemma of whether or not to "DISTURB THEIR UNIVERSE" ie, to tell the worlds inhabitants that their god is fake.
too much religious shit made me write a shitty religious speculative fiction text.
question wass dumb...now i no speak english anemor.

 

[loquasagacious]

Well I think I can take the cake for lamest inclusion of the quote I coupled it with "I think therefore I am" and then my hard-boiled-ish detctive put down his big book of good quotes and I got on with my story.

Did anyone else do a parody?

My detective was Phillipe Marlin, a big believer in ambience however unfortunately a chaser of errant spouses, runaway teens and missing pets. Bets on the horses but rarely wins. He is arrested and under interogation it is revealed he runs a pornography ring. My 'real' detectives are also not entirely wholesome, one is urbane and smart aka Doran however the other is a thug. So I shifted the goalposts, referenced to texts studied and to use the most 'wankerish' terms that comes to mind I challenged the popular perception of the detective as morally superior however he was bought to justice so the didactic survives if slightly damaged.

 

[olay]

mine was about a woman who held this incredibly routine life and then snapped and killed her husband [who was her universe] and created a new one in this other guy that she would go to the movies with once a wk. wtf?

:S i think it sounds more like revenge tragedy than cf and i'm scared i didn't incorporate any conventions of cf in mine [except the murder]. and it was weird - it was a half poem half narrative.

 

[Katjif]

Some of these sound great!

Mine was sooo funny, I kept giggling at myself , I was in the strangest mood and the supervisor had to come over and tell me to be quiet. Mine was basically this completely twisted Bold and The Beautiful-esque piece about a hardboiled female P.I She was related to all these random people best friends with others and god I'm weird... At the end, it was revealed that she was female, which I thought was quite clever myself haha...

 

[persephone]

mine was a bit dodgy. I used the the line in the thing to make some sort of tenuous link. i wrote about how this girl had come from a line of police officers and she decided to do private investigating which her father warned her against. she hadn't had any cases, went psycho and killed someone so that someone would hire her as a private investigator. there's something else about a ransom in there but it wasn't that great.

 

[tinuviel]

Revenge Tragedy

Hey did anyone do revenge tragedy as their genre? I thought the creative question was pretty good, and the essay was well, interesting. Though there was quite a few different interpretations of the picture.

 

[ignorance=bliss]

can ppl tell me if they think my sotry is as riduclous as it seems to me>

ok based loosely on the episode of law+order the nght before

a midle aged woman found dead in her aprtmant. cops +nforensics trace it back to her hsband.
i used sum forensic jrgon
at the end
they traced the dead chic back to her neighburs house. she was confronting the slut about sleeping with her husband, the slut denies as usual (by the way the wife had been lead to the slut by her husbands phone book where there was an entry under 'unverse', the philanderer's alias)
the woman confonted her hubsand after seeing them in bed together at her house coming home from work unexpectedly. he kills her n the quote was related to this gay sotry as the dying womans suicidee note

her sarcasm is seen in hher dying words (written on paper) 'how dare i distrub the universe', with the universe bieng the other chic?

wat use think


its so gay from where i am

 

[tennille]

I used forensics as well, and I made my detective female with the typical hardboiled detective traits.

Yours doesn't seem crap. At least it's not some corney crap

 

[Butterfly Kissz]

we shud all put our stories together and come up with a book. hahaha.
put them in their different genres and sell it to ppl for related material hehehehehe