STEVE CAVERNO: Hi. My name is Steve Caverno on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'll be talking to you about playwriting basics. Now, we're going to look at some ways to brainstorm ideas for your play. Now, you're starting with scratch, a white board. What can you do to fill up that white space? Well, one thing I recommend is perhaps creating a box of ideas, a typical shoebox can work. You write down something on a scrap of paper or receipts, a napkin on a restaurant, and you take it home, you might get lost, so you throw her in the box of ideas and then maybe after a month of collecting these ideas, you look through 'em. You try to compile a story of all random things. It might be a dream. It might be something you heard someone say, in passing. And this could be a good method of coming up with ideas for stories. In addition to the box of ideas, you can also take a brown bag. Fill it with different characters and situations. In this brown bag, we have different characters, we also have different plots, and we have different places. So, we'll pick a word out. We have a waitress. So, we'll write down the waitress. Now, we'll pick out something else from the bag of tricks. Scared to fly. A waitress who is scared to fly and I will find out where this waitress might be. At a downtown bank. So in this scene, we have waitress in a downtown bank who's scared to fly. What do we do with the story? Perhaps the waitress is at the bank so she can adjust her trust or her will, and leave the money to her love ones in case she dies on the plane. Perhaps the waitress is psychic and she knows she's going to die on the plane but she has to fly somewhere because it's the right thing to do. It will affect some course of destiny. Perhaps the waitress isn't the one that's scared to fly. Perhaps it's the bank teller who is leaving for important business conference. These are some of the ways in which we can generate story ideas through random things written on pieces of paper.
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