Scenario script: Sassy story where you create someone else - Game on!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Shop Talk Writers
Phaenon — 8 months ago(July 24, 2025 02:45 AM)
For the sake of our scenario you have to pretend to be someone else in a short story (No more than a few paragraphs). This person can be of any age, gender, sexual alignment, race, class or culture. Feel free to throw in any tropes you wish to try out, be a Japanese schoolgirl, a tough mechanic who ain't doing another tour for this sack of **** leader, a reluctant husband considering going to a Coldplay concert with her from HR, a bookish German model, a homeless guy who idolises someone who lives in a penthouse apartment in Times Square - anything goes!
The lovely cultured people of Filmboards will grade your submission with compliments about what worked best for them and concerns for improvement in the next draft. Let your mind wander freely and above all, have fun
My opening submission written adlib, in one flow, as follows:
He isn't like the rest, he probably doesn't even notice me. It's always a party going on when I go over to visit and it always seems that I'm well liked (I suppose that goes without saying) but he seems indifferent. Not even reclusive or withdraw, just letting time ride on as it normally does while everyone else seems excited to see me. Perhaps that's his charm, maybe that's what I'm drawn to…something that lifts me up, makes me feel like I belong. He leaves me breathless.
He does like puzzles though, perhaps that's the way to get him to notice me. I've read about what people like him can do in your underwear. A bit rough I'm sure (I hope, I suppose). Maybe something to tax his brain will get his body to yearn? Some time out of mind. But how to present a reward to someone who has everything? No fancy outfit or haircut will catch his eye. There's no preference for cuisine or culture as far as I know. How do you capture that which cannot be captured. Sure I always know where he is and I don't expect that change, for now at least, but being noticed - special like, how do I do that?
Perhaps I should try talking to him. Just the two of us, no distractions. Maybe that will give him room enough to put his full attention onto me. But what if that doesn't work? I don't want to have to face my primal fear; power with no mercy. How could I compete with a jackal like him? I might try being a Japanese bitch to him, he might like that…what will be his final analysis of me? Or me of him?
Should I? Maybe I do. No, I will!
Sure it might be a cryptic read for some, perhaps really easy for others. But that's some punchy parlance right there, and off the cuff, for starting this thread.
So rate it, give us your feedback and more importantly; post your own (Remember the Slash dot exists for a reason
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Ding Dong
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