I Know Who Killed Me (writing prompts!)

Today's writing inspiration comes from the brilliantly bad deserves-to-be-a-camp-classic Lindsay Lohan film, I Know Who Killed Me

I saw this clip of Martin Scorsese talking about his writing process and I love what he said because he breaks it down in such a simple way. All of this essentially boils down to: sit down at your computer and play. What do you think of this…

“To write a movie it’s probably not unlike an actor doing an improvisation. You engage in an imaginary movie that you pretend that you’re seeing and seeing how it’s shown and what the people are doing and saying. You set out on a little excursion of imagination. And then of course you write down what you’re seeing, what you’re hearing, what they’re saying, and all of a sudden a door will open and someone will walk in who you didn’t expect. Sort of following a thread that isn’t really yet there but it seems to be weeding itself through this act of visualization and improvisation. Ultimately I’ve learned to just put that down on paper and not even, when I’m done for the morning, to read it. Because I’m enjoying the impression I had and if I were to read it, I might be disappointed or suddenly disappointed or think it wasn’t very good. And then the next day I pick up where I was and again I engage in that little improvisation. And after two days I’ll have maybe ten pages. And so then I feel, wow I have something. But I still won’t read it. Sometimes I’ll stop and do a little step outline: okay one, he meets her, two, she tells him such and such. But I’ll only do six or seven steps, I won’t do all the steps. I’ll use that as a guide and I’ll continue this sort of act of promiscuous imagination. It’s just like daydreaming really.”

An act of promiscuous imagination! Yes. Let’s all engage in some writing improvisation today…

Today’s prompts were inspired by the Lindsay Lohan movie I KNOW WHO KILLED ME. Have you seen this movie? It is incredible. I mean that in every way possible. Lindsay Lohan’s character is missing a leg (like literally, it just goes missing one day) and there is one scene shot from the waist up where she keeps shifting her weight from one leg to the other (non-existent!) leg. Pure camp tomfoolery. I highly recommend. Okay, TIME TO WRITE.