![]() ![]() When you imagine your family as the cast of a screwball comedy or a trippy David Lynch movie, their antics stop being irritating and start becoming fascinating. The trick is to see them not as relatives but as characters in a book or movie. But you can still learn to tolerate-even enjoy-talking with them without so much as an hour of therapy. ![]() One strategy? Fictionalize your family.Ten million? Alex, what do you think? Eight million? Tanya, you say thirty million? Any other guesses? Pause dramatically before you reveal the answer, and then say, "Actually, I have no idea." Then discuss how you might construct an answer based on only the things you do know. No one will know, so insist that they guess. Bonus points if you can hum a tune or describe your band's first music video to go viral.Įxtra large party? Pick a couple across the room, out of earshot, and dub their conversation.Īsk a group of people what the annual production of automobiles was in the United States last year. Go around a circle, and use the name of two or more objects you see in the order you see them to make the best indie band name: e.g., Clock Head, Juicer Man, Dog's Butthole Computer. ![]() Youcan generate the main character by asking one person for their uncle's name and another person for their pet's name, and then combining-such as, "Stephen Red Rocket." Take it from there. To generate a title, open up a book to a random page and read the first two words on the page-that's your title. Improvise a movie pitch, starting with a made-up title. ![]()
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