##Exercise 2.2: Short Story
In this exercise, you will create a short story based on the outline you have developed in Exercise 1. This short story will help you to further elaborate on and set up a direction for your final project on this course. This will also serve as a source of inspiration and a guide for future projects.
###Guidelines
Based on the outline you have created in Exercise 1, write a 1-page short story telling your characters "journey". Remember, a journey is series of situations, beginning, middle, and end, that generally depict growth or change to the main character. Keep your story simple and direct.
###Steps to Completion
- An easy way to start is to write your beginning sentence following Pixar's storytelling tip #4:
- Once upon a time there was ----.
- Every day, ----.
- One day ----.
- Because of that, ----.
- Because of that, ----.
- Until finally ----.
- Expand on this initial idea and write your story so it is clearly organized in three acts:
- Beginning (Setting up the stage): Introduce your characters, their initial situation and their goals.
- Middle (Crisis): Describe how the situation changes and which obstacles appear, setting up a moment of crisis that shifts the current situation and requires an action from your main character to be solved.
- End (Climax): Describe how your character overcomes the obstacles presented. The character(s), now changed by their journey, achieve their goals, sometimes at a price.
It is important that you structure your story in this three distinct moments (beginning, middle, end) so you can more easily apply it into your next exercise (in Lesson 3).
- Expand and rewrite, one more time. By rewriting your story you will get a chance to deepen your understanding of your own characters and their objectives, and refine your story to be more clear and relatable.
- Post your final story as a PDF file to the course page following this naming convention:
art204_exercise2-2_lastname_firstname.pdf