So this week was the Acadamy Awards. And the film "The Artist" ended up taking away best picture. The reason is pretty obvious, though here's the trailer in case you haven't seen it yet.
The Artist pays homage to classical Hollywood in many ways, the lack of sound. The ratio it was presented in and the speed of the film's frames. Even the music at one point is actually the love score from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. It is meant as a love letter to Hollywood, according to the Director.
So, for this week's writing, try making your own version of a love letter to classical writing. And you can interpret that anyway you want. For example, you could try your hand at epic poetry, in the style of Homer or Tolkien set in the heroic hexameter. Or you could try writing a fable, like Aesop or Mother Goose. You could write a scene of an episode for one of your favorite TV shows (maybe there's more going on at Downton Abbey then anyone knows). You might want to try doing a scene from a book (like Pride and Prejudice) adapted into our modern time, or you could try taking an event from our lives and placing it in the Regency Era of Jane Austen. No this isn't like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". This isn't meant to exploit what we love. It's meant to pay homage to it by allowing ourselves to really appreciate the finer elements of the work we are honoring by placing ourselves in the mindset of that writer.
Remember, this is less about perfection and more just to help us all keep writing.
Mine will be up in a few days... once I figure out what to write and then get to writing it :)
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