Welcome to the tenth session of our story telling crash course. With this one, we're reaching the "two thirds" threshold, which means we have only 5 sessions left until the end of the course. I already start to miss these posts. It was a very enjoyable exercise to write these sessions, to follow up with those who took on the assignments and to award the symbolic prize.
Anyway, back to today's topic: write without using negations. The aim of this activity is to get into a positively focused mindset.
Writing without using negations is more difficult than you think. My girlfriend was recently into a story telling course and I remember that one of her assignments was exactly that, only the course also provided a specially crafted editor, which, every time you would write a negation would have blocked the keyboard. And I think there was also an audible alert, something like: "nope, can't do that". It gets annoying after a while.
Writing without negations also helps to create contrast or polarization in a more creative way. If you can't use negations to define the "other" way, you're forced to define it in a different way. It's not "right" versus "wrong", or "do" versus "don't", but rather "this" versus "that", without any polarization attached.
So, your assignment is to write a post, on whatever topic you want, without using any form of negation. Don't forget to tag it challenge30 and story, so I can find it on Steemit, but it wouldn't hurt to leave me a comment too, with a link to the article. I will personally review all the articles and award a 1 SBD symbolic prize to the winner. You have 24 hours.
Looking forward to read your stories.
Links to previous sessions:
- Story Telling Crash Course - Session One: Anchoring Techniques - Personal Stories
- Story Telling Crash Course - Session Two: Anchoring Techniques - Quotes
- Story Telling Crash Course - Session Three: Anchoring Techniques - Research
- Story Telling Crash Course - Session Four: Master the Listicle Particle
- Story Telling Crash Course - Session Five: Define and Create Palatable Text
- Story Telling Crash Course - Session Six: Perspective Games
- Story Telling Crash Course - Session Seven: Meaningful Detours
- Story Telling Crash Course - Session Eight: Form Constraints - Write Only 3 Sentences Per Paragraph
- Story Telling Crash Course - Session Nine: Form Constraints: Write Maximum 10 Words per Sentence
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