Class Writing - Situation

   One day, Edmond and Edbert go to a crowded hawker centre, and then they see an empty seat there. Both of them dash there to get their seat, and both of them met in between the chair.
They look at each other.
And they look at the chair. A tissue paper is there.
Without thinking, Edmond shove the tissue paper out of the chair, and sit there. On other way, Edbert is not satisfied about him sitting there.

"Hey get out of that seat!" he said.
"Why don't you get other chair?" Edmond replied.

Just when they debating about the seat, they see the tissue paper that was shoved out of the chair. It has a weird stain. And, at that moment, Edmond stand up and surprised because the chair has curry sauce spilled in there, made his pants wet.

He didn't notice because the tissue cover it up. And then Edbert just laugh it off and went to look a new seat.

Class Writing - making characters

In this post, I will describe two of my friends whom I know quite well.

The first one , his name is Edmond.

• He is a thin and rather short boy.
• He talks out loud.
• A friendly person.
• Not a dilligent person.
• Often chattering around in class.
• Excellent with technology.
• Loves to hack things, such as games, website, etc.
• Loves to do weird things.
• A bit easy to get angry.
• Loves motorcycles.
• Loves drama.
• Hates horror movie.
• Can adapt in any peer groups.

The second one, his name is Edbert.

• He is a thin and average height boy.
• He speaks frankly.
• Often speak random things.
• A quite dilligent person.
• Loves to do new things.
• Loves playing games.
• Despite his usual behavior, he is able to do serious talk.
• A good friend with Edmond (the previous character)
• Sometimes think well, sometimes don't.
• Emotional person.
• Not a shy person.
• Often teases other.

How to create a character?

First of all, give a name to your character.
You must know your character very very well.

How does your character look like?
Is it an animal, a person, a fruit, etc. etc.
By knowing how it look like, you can know how he expresses things.

You have to know emotions, what they think, how they think, what is their attitude, how do they feel towards [.....] , what are their values, how do they values certain things, how do they got emotional, what do they like and not like, strengths, talents, and weaknesses, their nature / personality, experiences, what is their feeling towards their experiences, how do they relate to other characters, behavior, reaction towards a situation.

and the important thing is :
they must have a motive / goal.

All of that give more things to write to your story.

What a story IS ?

Hi there, welcome to my blog for Storytelling & Scriptwriting class, and this will be my first post!

   "What do you think a story is?"

That's the topic of this post.
Many way to define a story, but to me, a story is a series of event. Whether it is real, or not. Anything can be a story. Even your daily life also can be made into a story.

For example :

 "Today I woke up at 8 a clock, and then I went to school, attend my class and go home to sleep."

That's also a story, a simple story, and very short one.
Story can be simple, complicated, long, short, and have different mood, like happy, sad, scary, or anything, depends on the imagination or experience that the writer wants to express.