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A Fun Game – In Your Head (The Theory & Second Analyses)
Now that we have viewed the three sets of character(s) profiles (read post here) we can now move onto analysing Cynthia‘s characters in conjunction with the way she visioned the dialogue and how CM Stewart interpreted Cynthia’s characters in her version of the story -excited yet? You should be. 
Here’s Cynthia’s two characters:
Ted: Grounds keeper 75 year old and hates kids. He has a limp and very good eye sight.
Katie: A twelve year old girl hiding in the barn.
Katie knows more about why she was left at the festival than she is saying.
Yes, they are brief profiles; but the real question should be do they speak volumes, will their voices shine through?
Festival of Colour
by Cynthia
A Fun Game – In Your Head (The Theory & First Analyses)
(Whoopsie -I apparently hit save draft instead of schedule *embarrassed smile* -I wondered why I could not see it here on the blog. Here’s yesterdays’ post; apologies for the delay.)
When I set out devising this game, I had no idea how things would pan out and how life would prolong the inevitable end. Here we are -the part of which where I reveal my theory and if my findings are as I thought it would be. I realise this will likely to end up as a rather long(ish) post; therefore, depending on it’s length I will spilt this up into two or three posts (for the sake of easy reading). Before I start I would like to thank Cynthia, Stephanie, Billie Jo Woods and CM Stewart -you guys have been great sports for taking part and extremely super for being sooo patient!
Now let’s get back to my theory. My theory is a simple one; it was spurred on after I took part in Voice Week hosted by Stephanie. We were required to use different voices to re-act the same scene. Whilst taking part a thought popped in my head (a common known flaw at the best of times 
); would a perfect character sketch allow for any writer to write in the same voice (or close enough) as another writer? Hmmm was my response and then this game unwrapped itself.
I can’t believe how ironic it was that the character sketches provided by Billie Jo, Cynthia & CM Stewart was sooo different.
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A Fun Game – In Your Head (A Recap)
The week is nearing to a close as we finally get to the long-awaited A Fun Game – In Your Head (thank you for your patience); so I thought a recap would be the best thing (to re-familiarise ourselves with the game and also re-read the stories. Before I went AWOL we were one story short (Cynthia was unable to continue with the game; which meant I had to see what I could do to make this work. Then an idea hit me; remember I took part in Voice Week (see point number one below)? Well, I thought it would be apt to ask the brains behind that -and what a sweetie she turned out to be yep, Stephanie agreed to participate (you’re such a lifesaver Stephanie!). I’ve copied the relevant parts for this game below from my initial post (apologies if you have read it before; great if it is a useful refresher and if you want to skip it, please do so; but make sure you check all the stories in the linky list at the (nearly) end of this post. :D
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A Fun Game – In Your Head (Cynthia’s Submission)
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Frivolous Fun Friday:
Today I was hoping to do a bit of analyses of the dialogues and see if my theory worked; however, we are two dialogues short (one I will share with you below, the other I’m looking into seeing how I can make it work before we start to analyse the theory). Due to life’s uncertainties, Cynthia has been unable to continue with the game (I hope whatever it is will sort itself out Cynthia). Having said that, I have been in contact with Cynthia (she has kindly sent me her first dialogue so I can post it here on her behalf; however, the final dialogue is still aloof (I’ll let you know how I fair with this)). Please find below Cynthia’ dialogue to her own character(s) profile (there’s a brief recap of the rules etc for those who are not familiar with the game).
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A Fun Game – In Your Head (Part Three)
Frivolous Fun Friday:
I cannot believe I forgot today was Friday! How ditzy of me! (This is the reason why today’s blog post has just materialized!) It’s been a hectic (and fun) week spending quality time with my lovely family -unfortunately the head cold/flu I have been suffering from has not helped me to think clearly for my regular writing sprints (a fuzzy brain comes to mind). Fortunately I am getting better -therefore, I am hoping the next few days I will get back to normal (whatever normal may be). Being out of sync is just a weird-out-of-body experience, don’t you think? Have you ever had moments like that and just found it too difficult to concentrate and make sense of things? How did you resolve the setbacks (if any)? Whilst I leave you to ponder on that, I think it’s best that I do not waste any more valuable time and go straight onto today’s post.
(As always, there is a pdf document at the bottom of the post for those who may find this a difficult read.)
Let the Fun Game In Your Head Begin…
It is now exactly one month since we embarked on this mind game and I am hoping all the participants have had fun *looks up expectantly* -I am actually intrigued on how they tackled the task at hand and if my theory has worked *prays*
In short: Today is part three of the game I devised four weeks ago; if you still do not know what it is all about then head on over to this post. Now comes the fun part, Billie Jo Woods, CM Stewart and Cynthia all stood up to the unusual challenge. They were required to create a character(s) profile and write a 200-300 word dialogue within the guidelines I set out in part one of this game (see the details below). In part two, I asked them to email the character(s) profile they created to one of the participants (names selected out of a hat by me); with the character(s) profile(s) they received they had to write another 200-300 word dialogue (again meeting the same requirements as mentioned below).
Setting: A small quiet village approx 200 miles from the nearest city adorned with thatched cottages and surrounded by vast empty fields. Not much happens here, except for their festival –the festival of colour, this happens once a year; tourists and families from afar visit, no one misses this event. This is the highlight of the year for the villagers; they prepare for this the whole year.
The Dialogue Prompts:
- No children live in the village.
- A child hides in a barn and stays after the festivities.
- Your character(s) interacts with the child.
- The child has a secret.
- Add a surprise of your own -in keeping with your character(s) profile.
Here’s a quick recap on my theory (just in case you have forgotten -I’ve quoted myself 
):
It’s quite a simple theory if you really think about. I am inclined to think, -if and that’s a HUMANGOUS if; if our character(s) profiles are written with great care; if we build them like a real person, know their likes and dislikes etc and those random quirks they have, -then in ‘theory’ the voice of that character will not change much if another person writes from their POV (point of view). I mean, there might be the odd variation -and I don’t expect the dialogues to be identical, I just would like to believe that that voice would be easily identifiable as X character(s) voice than anyone’s else. We will now have a better idea now that we have reached the final stage of this game. We can now analyse and compare to see if my theory holds true or is just a random errand thought.
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Now Comes the Fun Part: It’s the Grande Finale; therefore, participants (Billie Jo, Cynthia and Cynthia ) you can now share share share all that you have done on your blog and link it in the linky tool below. I’ll leave it up to you if you would like to write one blog post or several -the linky tool will be open for two weeks so that should give you enough time (if you need more time let me know). Please ensure you display your original (own) character(s) profile(s) and dialogues separate to the character(s) profile(s) you have received and written a dialogue accordingly to.
What’s Next? The next three frivolous Friday’ post I will collate the related character(s) profile(s) and dialogues (both the original and the second writers); we will then look at the similarities and differences and see if and why they differ. Billie Jo, Cynthia and Cynthia I would like to have insights from yourselves (I will email you shortly and explain my thoughts).
If you want to display these links on your blog, please feel free to get the InLinkz code here.
Should you have any questions or suggestions, please ask/let me below in the comment box or via the contact details below.
Before I forget, this game is for fun so sadly there are no prizes; but if it proves popular and there’s a demand for it to be played again in the future, I’ll keep a note and consider it then.
Have a fab-tastic Friday and a wondrous weekend. Keep that positivity-a-glowing and your smile forever shining -stay in peace.
A Tiny Note: This game is the final stage of the game; in two weeks (22/10/2011) we shall analyse the results and have a debate/discussion, so please feel free to pop by then and join in.
Copyright © Ozlem Yikici 2011 & Copyright © doodllz™ 2011. All Rights Reserved.
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As you already know, thoughts and comments are encouraged as always -even if it is just a word -as ‘all good discussions start with just one word‘.
Pdf document: A Fun Game – In Your Head (Part Three)
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A Fun Game – In Your Head (Part Deux)
Frivolous Fun Friday:
Good morning *yawns* I’m sitting at my desk with a lovely cup of brewed English Tea and on top of that my laptop is cooperating (The external hard drive arrived this morning, so after this post I will be doing some serious backing-up *cheers*). It’s a beautiful sunny day here the UK (I know you all probably do not want a weather report -and this is not one I promise) -so despite that earlier *yawn* I’m on a positive this morning and I hope you all are too -I’m sure my fabulous readers and visitors are doing super-duper.
Before we get onto the game I had to share a video -last night as I was trying to sleep I heard a cat meowing (or rather having an argument) and it reminded me of a video I had watched on YouTube a while back, (it had me in a fit of giggles back then) and so as an extra Frivolous Fun Friday treat I give you:
(As always, there is a pdf document at the bottom of the post for those who may find this a difficult read.)
Let the Fun Game Begin…
Now back to today’s post. Today is part two of the game I devised two weeks ago; if you want to see what it’s all about head on over to this post <—well, if you don’t click you will not find out; what are you like!
Have you come back? Oh good; I have to say that I am delighted by the interest shown and also extremely happy that there’s a fab few (Billie Jo Woods, Jody Moller, CM Stewart and Cynthia) who wanted to take part. I too was considering to take part but what with my laptop causing me problems -I didn’t get far enough to think about it (I was too annoyed, hence it hindered my progress), therefore, I think it’s best I be the ‘games master(ess)’ -well, someone has to do it. In addition, Jody had to pull out due to personal reasons (Jody, I hope all goes smoothly); therefore our contestants are now three in total (three is a good number -all things comes in threes, so maybe this is a good sign). 
Matching-up the Names: In order for it to be fair, I have put the three participants name into a hat and pulled them out. I matched them to the names I had previously written down in an alphabetical order; this is the final list:
Cynthia E. —> CM Stewart
CM Stewart —> Billie Jo Woods
Billie Jo Woods —> Cynthia E.
This next part will involve emailing across your character(s) profile to the person on the other side of the arrow e.g. Cynthia will email to CM Stewart; CM Stewart will send an email to Billie Jo Woods and Billie Jo will email Cynthia -ok so far? Good. (I will be contacting you guys with the email addresses you need, therefore keep an eye out for that.) Once the emails are received and you have a read of the character(s) profile you have in front of you I want you to write another 200-300 words dialogue with the same setting in mind (see below) and also include the required prompts that are needed for the dialogue (also below).
Setting: A small quiet village approx 200 miles from the nearest city adorned with thatched cottages and surrounded by vast empty fields. Not much happens here, except for their festival –the festival of colour, this happens once a year; tourists and families from afar visit, no one misses this event. This is the highlight of the year for the villagers; they prepare for this the whole year.
The Dialogue Prompts:
- No children live in the village.
- A child hides in a barn and stays after the festivities.
- Your character(s) interacts with the child.
- The child has a secret.
- Add a surprise of your own -in keeping with your character(s) profile.
Remember, no sharing your dialogues until I say so. Now get those dialogues a-ready; think, plot and come back in two weeks time; I will reveal the next stage of the game (the Grande Finale).
In Your Head…
Now comes to the part about my theory; I was in two minds if I should reveal it now or reveal it when we reach stage three (see I do not want to put pressure on my fab participants), but seeing that you have waited patiently I will let you in on my thoughts. It’s quite a simple theory if you really think about. I am inclined to think, -if and that’s a HUMANGOUS if; if our character(s) profiles are written with great care; if we build them like a real person, know their likes and dislikes etc and those random quirks they have, -then in ‘theory’ the voice of that character will not change much if another person’s writes from their POV (point of view). I mean, there might be the odd variation -and I don’t expect the dialogues to be identical, I just would like to believe that that voice would be easily identifiable as X character(s) voice than anyone’s else. Does that make sense? We will get a better idea when we reach the final stage when we can analyse and compare to see if my theory holds true or is just a random errand thought. (I will try and set up one of those linky lists so it’s easier to work with.)
If you have any questions or suggestions, please ask/let me below in the comment box or via the contact details below.
Before I forget, this game is for fun so sadly there are no prizes; but if it proves popular and there’s a demand for it to be played again in the future, I’ll keep a note and consider it then.
Have a fab-tastic Friday and a wondrous weekend. Keep that positivity-a-glowing and your smile forever shining -stay in peace.
A Tiny Note: This game is currently being played in three stages; this is stage two. Stage three is in two weeks (07/10/2011). I am having a bit of a semi-brainwave for the final stage (to make it fun), come back in two weeks and see what I am cooking up.
Copyright © Ozlem Yikici 2011 & Copyright © doodllz™ 2011. All Rights Reserved.
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As you already know, thoughts and comments are encouraged as always -even if it is just a word -as ‘all good discussions start with just one word‘.
Pdf document: A Fun Game – In Your Head (Part Deux)
If there is a topic you would like me to look into and explore in my own yikici-kind-of-way then please feel free to leave a suggestion in the comment box below or for those of you who are a wee bit shy drop me a line via my contact page or email me at admin[at]yikici[dot]co[dot]uk
A Fun Game – In Your Head
Frivolous Fun Friday:
Oh my! *looks around in excitement* ‘you really and truly think so? Oooo now I must get some sort of acceptance speech together -hey! No need to be such a meanie!’ *pouts* ‘I was dreaming of the possibilities, I am soooo touched by the lovely suggestion.‘ *dabs tears with handkerchief* -are you feeling the love also? I surely am; spammers or not -who cares, it certainly put a smile on my face and a spring in my steps.
I may not be of Pulitzer Prize material (a girl can dream), but it’s good to know somewhere out there a-Marty Feldman-deceased *ahem* thinks I am worthy of such a honour. *beams a gracious smile then winks* what are your spammers like? Any quirky, fun, polite, wacky, courteous, advice seeking, advice giver, constant sales reps’ -or like mine; totally complimentary? 
I’d love to hear any fun/bizarre anecdotes.
(As always, there is a pdf document at the bottom of the post for those who may find this a difficult read.)
Let the Fun Game Begin…
How’s it going so far? Need to digest it? Sure, in the meantime let me delve into the whys and hows… I actually got inspired to create this game after three random occurrences fell my way.
In Your Head
Now let’s think back to the setting and the character(s) that will take part in that setting (go on have another read if you must -then come back here); back and ready? Good, now I want you to devise a short dialogue of about 200-300 words -this can be in any genre you feel comfortable with. Ok so far? Excellent, now listen carefully, do not post this little exercise until I say so -or else the fun will be lost. The key point of this game is your character(s), I want you to build them as you would any other character, get to know them inside and out, their likes, their hates etc -jot it all down and keep this for the second round of this game (that’ll be in two weeks time). Great, now that you know your character(s); write them in into that 200-300 piece of writing, make sure the following points are included and acted out within the dialogue (this is still in line with my theory):
Ok, with these guidelines in mind build your character(s). Note: Try to keep away from stereotypes -if you cannot then add a quirky character trait; this will help the game be more fun and hopefully challenge you all. Remember, no sharing your dialogues or character(s) until I say so. Now get those character(s) and dialogue a-ready; think, plot and come back in two weeks time; I will reveal the next stage of the game. Before you disappear, please let us know if you would be joining in with the game by adding a comment below -just so we know. The more the merrier!
If you have any questions, please ask me below in the comment box or via the contact details below.
Before I forget, this game is for fun so sadly there are no prizes; but if it proves popular and there’s a demand for it to be played again in the future, I’ll keep a note and consider it then.
Have a fab-tastic Friday and a wondrous weekend. Keep that positivity-a-glowing and your smile forever shining -stay in peace.
A Tiny Note: This game will be played in three stages; this is stage one. Stage two is in a fortnight (23/09/2011) and stage three is two weeks after that (07/10/2011). I will let you in on my theory in two weeks time.
Copyright © Ozlem Yikici 2011 & Copyright © doodllz™ 2011. All Rights Reserved.
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As you already know, thoughts and comments are encouraged as always -even if it is just a word -as ‘all good discussions start with just one word‘.
Pdf document: A Fun Game – In Your Head
If there is a topic you would like me to look into and explore in my own yikici-kind-of-way then please feel free to leave a suggestion in the comment box below or for those of you who are a wee bit shy drop me a line via my contact page or email me at admin@yikici.co.uk