From the course: Creativity Boot Camp

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Reviewing The Middle exercise: Understanding creative restrictions

Reviewing The Middle exercise: Understanding creative restrictions

From the course: Creativity Boot Camp

Reviewing The Middle exercise: Understanding creative restrictions

- I want to hear one of the stories. I heard bits and pieces of your story, so will you read your story? - Sure. - Okay, read the full story. Read that part and then your three sentences. - A man woke up in the center median of a busy highway, unable to remember how he got there. He was holding an authentic 18th Century Spanish sword in one hand, and an empty bottle of fabric softener in the other. Having just come from the future picking up fabric softener for his wife he sees a chicken crossing the road. He darts into the street dodging horses and carts because their only chicken has just run loose. While doing this he accidentally impales the chicken on his sword. Dazed, he picks up the chicken, apologized to the young woman and rode away. - Very nice, very good. My guess is that everyone of your stories are drastically different than that story, right? And isn't that the best part about creativity? I could give you the same problem, with the same restrictions, and all of you could…

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