Day 3: What I learned …

[Susan Willard]

Week 3 Day 3: Take it to the Extreme – BRIDESMAIDS

Bridesmaids Food Poisoning Scene

What I learned rewriting my scene:

· Taking the scene to extremes makes the scene more memorable.

· Allows more creativity in scene building.

· Can give the scene more flexibility and depth.

· Going to the extremes may be off limits due to your subject matter and age category.

· I have many ideas but need to pick one story-specific idea and stick to it.

[Rice Rice]

What I learned rewriting my scene is the entertainment value of injecting an element that is unexpected and out of normality for the situation, then escalating that extraordinary element to a level of even greater abnormality and surprise, something that is truly extreme.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by  Rice Rice.

[Courtney Hill]

I learned that extreme can still be believable. I recently got food poisoning for the first time and it is actually very believable that you will relieve yourself wherever you can. It’s an awful feeling that you don’t have much control over. It was extreme for all the women to have the same reaction and run into the street, but not unbelievable. I would make every attempt to find somewhere to do my business, ha.