What's Next - Creative Exercise 36

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Introduction

    Storytelling has always been a big part of many cultures. For centuries, these stories have given us insight into our history and how day-to-day life has been lived by our ancestors. Because our ancestors have left these stories behind, we have been able to develop and evolve into what we have become now, but enough of that! Stories have a bi-product that involves the concept of implication. By reading the story we can predict what the future will hold because the storyteller provided order in the sequence, and now we know there are only a few ways these stories can end. A storyteller does not need to tell you what happened because the story implies the end result of what has been conveyed.

    Developing a sense of implication in regards to how stories will end is a skill. Today this skill will be practiced in my next creative exercise.

    My next creative exercise is called “What’s Next?” out the book, “CREATIVE BOOT CAMP-GENERATE IDEAS IN GREATER QUANTITY & QUALITY IN 30 DAYS”, written by Stefan Mumaw.

    “What’s Next” instructs us to “generate as many one-sentence completions to the following scenario as we can”. QW has 11 minutes to come up with as many possible conclusions as we can. The solutions should be one sentence and no more.

What’s Next:

1.       A man found a digital voice recorder lying in the street.

2.       The device had a note taped to it that read, press play, so he did.

Story Conclusions:

1.       His face dropped when he realized that he was secretly a millionaire, and his family had left him with a large sum of money.

2.       He was shocked to find out that he had a twin brother who lived 10 minutes away from him his entire life, and his brother wants to meet up with him.

3.       Dear Danial, your next step is to walk back into your home and don’t come out for a month.

4.       Your greatest dream is coming true in the next couple of weeks.

5.       Along with the recording, you will have round-trip tickets to go anywhere you want to go in the world.

6.       It is now your duty to fly to a country that needs help and provide them with your support.

Conclusion

    Some of the greatest storytellers practice exercises such as these to better their creative skills and generate many ideas. The more ideas that one can create the better the ending of the story will be. It is shown that they longer one thinks about something, the better the end result will be because it is when we are about ready to give up when we come up with our greatest idea of all. This exercise was interesting to say the least. I feel like if I had a little more time my ideas would have gotten more and more interesting. There are endless scenarios in which this story could have concluded.


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