Creative Thinking
Reflecting on the creative writing core competency through my experience with Paxton on the Spanish script, I realized the importance of collaboration and imagination. Working together, we enhanced our creativity by sharing ideas with each other. Our dialogues expressed the storyline and showed our characters’ emotions. For example, when our team was losing, Paxton’s character stayed positive. After winning the championship, we brainstormed activities like a picnic or a trip to the beach, basing our ideas on the weather. When our characters heard a mysterious thump while driving in the car, we quickly came up with a plan, introducing an unexpected twist. This experience helped me appreciate how creative writing involves creating interesting plots and dialogues, collaborating effectively, and quickly thinking.
The script I made with Paxton shows how we work together and come up with cool ideas, which is what creative writing is about. We learned to adjust our plans quickly when things changed, like when we had to change our story because of the weather. I got better at making characters with different feelings, but I want to get even better at making our stories more surprising and exciting. Just like writing a short English paragraph, making this script needed us to talk and work together to make a fun story.
- I can work with others to create interesting stories. Working with a partner helps me think of new ideas. Together, we make our stories more exciting and detailed.
- I can come up with new ideas and adapt to changes. When plans change, I can think quickly and adjust. This makes our stories flexible and creative.
- I can develop characters that show different emotions. I create characters who feel and react in realistic ways. This makes our stories more engaging and relatable.