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Creating a Problem in a Story
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4 thoughts on “Creating a Problem in a Story”
“God please bless their young youtubed hearts, because kids have become very boring lately.”
“Getting a ‘good’ problem going is more about luck than skill anyway…. we should just allow the story to create itself or not.”
This has exactly been my experience.
Also, a story that does not create itself in class with actors etc. can often create itself during write and discuss or when I type it up at home so that by the time we read it it actually does feel like a story. Without the kids staring at me blankly or yelling at me all different weird ideas, I can usually find an easy wrap up using whatever they gave me in class that they tend to accept once we read.
Carly said:
… a story that does not create itself in class with actors etc. can often create itself during write and discuss or when I type it up at home so that by the time we read it it actually does feel like a story. …
Bam!
Reflecting what Alisa said a few days ago in a comment, this is quite an insight and in my mind encapsulates where this entire two-month long discussion has been heading. We just can’t think of the creation of a story as some kind of performance. We do not have stages in our classrooms for the reason that we are not actors. We are teachers. If I had wanted to become an actor I would have gone into acting. We can do whatever we want as long we are communicating in the TL with our students.
Thank you for this insight, Carly. Can I put it in my book? You and Alisa are quoted more than a few times in there already. (Laurie Clarcq once rightly said that I don’t actually write books, I just take stuff from here and cram it all together in one place.)
Of course!