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Wednesday 16 October 2019

Creative Writing Matrix - Crazy Lyrical Dialogue

Crazy Lyrical Dialogue

  1. Go to a lyrics website like http://www.lyrics.com and select a song randomly, preferably one you've never heard or one to which you don't know the lyrics. For instance, I went to the website and selected, Fergie's "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)." I've never heard the song and haven't heard the lyrics.
  2. Then, scroll through the song and select the craziest lyric you can find that would be appropriate for school. In Fergie's song, I selected, "What do you think, GoonRock?" because it was the nuttiest phrase on there.
  3. Repeat this process twice more, selecting two more songs and two more crazy lyrics.
  4. Then, start a conversation with the first lyric you selected between two people very unlikely to use the phrase. For instance, I might write something like, "What do you think, GoonRock?" Aunt Ida asked Bernie, sitting two wheelchairs away in Serenity Meadows Assisted Living Center.
  5. Once you get the conversation going, insert the other two lyrics elsewhere, shifting the dialogue to make sure the conversation between the two characters makes sense. Continue until you can end the conversation definitively, with a resolution that meets the needs of one of the characters
"Danny says we're living in a simulation" The boy said, looking across the water and moving a stone between his two small hands. He examined it for a few seconds, before lobbing it upwards into the air, only for it to land with an ungraceful 'plop' no more than three metres in front of him. His sister rolled her eyes from her position further up on the river bank. "You shouldn't listen to that kid, Carlos. He's weird, he'll fill your head with all sorts of nonsense." The boy shrugged, a smile forming across his face. "He's funny" "He's weird." She corrected him, shuddering as the blanket around her shoulders fell to the sandy ground of the river side, the cold air hitting her like a truck. Carlos shook his head, "He's my friend." Another eye roll from his sister. Moving his attention from the body of water in front of him, Carlos looked up at the sky. "The sky looks so much prettier at night. Don't you wish that the sun never came up?" His sister smirked, "If the sun never came up we'd all die." Carlos furrowed his eyebrows "How?" She sighed, "We'd freeze to death, moron." A few moments went by before Carlos broke the silence once more. "I start middle school next year. How weird is that?" She smiled - this was one of the first things he had said that actually made sense all day. "Yeah. Seven years has gone so fast. You'll be graduating high school before you know it." The boy shuddered "I'm not that old."

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