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How To Begin Building A Story Off A Few Words – Jeff Kitchen

 

Film Courage: Let’s try to add some details and we’ll add an aspect card which is the last card [using The Story Engine story building card game].

Jeff Kitchen, Dramatist / Author / Founder / Consultant: We have [reads card]: 

Glorious, 

Treacherous, 

Wish granting,

Cloying. 

Cloying means clingy or unpleasant (I don’t remember what, exactly what that word means). Easy to look it up. I’ve heard it used perhaps in the sense of smell, where something smells dead or something, but I don’t think that’s right. Let me just look it up. The definition of cloying is:

Disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess like cloying sweetness, excessively sweet or sentimental: a cloying romantic comedy, her coyness grows cloying after a while. 

Interesting okay, so it’s just like too much, interesting. Glorious, treacherous, wish granting, those are the two that…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here)

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