Day 10 Assignments

[andrea cabanas]

Andrea Cabañas, Counterexamples.

1. Challenges:

– Katrina makes Zoe swear to the Bible that she’s not gay.
A woman flirts with Zoe, but she’s rude to her

– Georgia questions Zoe about why she feels ‘weird’ toward Paula. “… Hello! I’m a trans woman, your uncle’s ex, and I believe you don’t have issues with that. Or do you?”

– Georgia teases Zoe about religion. “Hun, are you talking about religion? Fuck that. Do you really believe that this is not okay? Let me ask you something. Do you feel guilty when you masturbate?”

– Georgia questions Zoe about James. “Wasn’t expecting it? You know he had a girlfriend. He always lied to you. Or what do you think he does when he disappears?”

Counterexamples:

– Zoe gets mad when she sees Paula with another woman and sleeps with Juan.

– When Zoe tells Georgia about Paula being a drug dealer, Georgia teases her about being the new queen of the Sinaloa Cartel.

– Even knowing Juan is the man the police are looking after, Zoe doesn’t run away.

– Katrina refers to Georgia as he/him.

2. I believe that having Georgia, a trans woman, question Zoe about her feelings and attitudes will help Zoe to see the world differently and don’t be afraid (or ashamed of) to come out as bisexual to her family.

[Terrell Harris]

Terrell’s Counterexamples

What I learned doing this assignment is how to write scenes with a deeper purpose and how counterexamples can make writing fun and not a chore, even though this was pretty hard. Once set up the scene is not a bear to write.

COUNTEREXAMPLE
John visits the lower city club and orders an expensive drink, of course they don’t have the ingredients so they can’t make it, so Cindy says he’ll just have a beer.

John could have a hissy fit or drink the beer but complain about it

COUNTEREXAMPLE
John expects Cyndi to be impressed by the upper city. She is not.
How bad Lower City is are just lies make up to make you feel better about your part of the city.

John get flustered that his “mac game” isn’t working on Cyndi

Challenges
Eva, CEO and John’s stepmom has a hardline against people from the Lower City, she hates them. John who has warmed up to them tries to convince her otherwise.
1. What if it could be politically advantageous?
2. What if we merged the two societies
3. Many of the rumors about them aren’t true, I’ve been there.
4. What if we invested in the Lower City?
5. There are harder to break than we thought

Eva sticks to her guns, it’s a fail for john. He goes behind her back

Challenges
John cheers for the fighter from the Lower City. His fiance asked him why.
1. She undefeated
2. She’s cute
3. Wants to meet her.
4. So what if she Lower City, she’s an awesome fighter.
5. I have a crush on her (secret)

They have a fight.

COUNTEREXAMPLE
Jocelyn refuses to descend into the Lower City.
1. It’s not safe
2. The people are gross
3. It’s dirty, stinky and nasty
4. The lower City girl just beat their fighter
5. Peer pressure – no one else will go

john goes by himself and spends the night in the Lower city.

Challenges
John questions an Upper City DJ he sees in the Lower City and asks why work down here? Isn’t the Upper City better?
1. Can DJ the way she wants to
2. She can be herself among these people
3. Just like “down there” better
4. I can breath, relax and have fun.
5. Me having fun makes for a better set
6.
John respects her , so considers her answers carefully, this sways him a little.

Challenges
Cyndi is approached with a plan to spy on the elites
can you get someone else?
1. I won’t fit in
2. is espionage the only way?
3. I’ll get caught
4. I suck at spying
5. Don’t nano injections (hitech disguise)

Cyndi reluctantly agrees to spy.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by  Terrell Harris.