6 exercises to develop creative thinking

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

These exercises are more likely to come in handy for those who are writing scripts or want to try their hand at this skill. However, they can also help develop your skills as a good storyteller, and you can also use them as a fun game with friends.

Funny

Pick a drama, thriller, or horror movie and rewrite it (retell) as if it were a comedy.

Seriously

Pick a comedy and turn it into a drama.

Undercover FBI Agent

Whether the end result is a comedy or a drama, your task at this point is to figure out what unusual place an FBI agent might find himself in. For example, he works undercover at a culinary arts school in Provence.

Non-standard school

Here, as in the previous paragraph, it does not matter what you decide to create: a comedy or a serious movie. Let the film be about school, but not about the usual one, but, say, about the "School for Wives".

Confrontation

Come up with a few pairs of people who have some kind of opposition worthy of a good story.

My cat is a serial killer

Name people, animals, or even things that can be killer maniacs.

It is thanks to this brainstorming that the ideas of the most interesting and unusual films and books are born.

You can also do these exercises with friends. The result is a fun and addictive game that will also be useful for developing creative thinking.

Have you ever done this kind of exercise?