Today I challenged myself to take the concepts of little
kids shows and break them down into component pieces, and my favorite study
I’ve made was Blues Clues.
What if Blue was a little girl who refused to talk? Look at the ridiculous lengths her brother is going to in order to make her feel safe and the crazy games he’ll play in order to understand and listen to her. “Yes, I’ll pretend you’re a puppy and all the furniture can talk and I will play really time-consuming games with you, because this is the way you reach out to me, and I am going to listen. Because being here for you is more important than college or a job or a girlfriend or whatever else I could be doing right now. I am going to live in this crazy, brightly-colored talking world of yours until you’re ready to come home into mine, because I love you.”
I am challenging you to write a story or a scene or a sequence focusing on the lengths someone will go to in order to understand or connect with a child…or some other person who is difficult to reach.
What if Blue was a little girl who refused to talk? Look at the ridiculous lengths her brother is going to in order to make her feel safe and the crazy games he’ll play in order to understand and listen to her. “Yes, I’ll pretend you’re a puppy and all the furniture can talk and I will play really time-consuming games with you, because this is the way you reach out to me, and I am going to listen. Because being here for you is more important than college or a job or a girlfriend or whatever else I could be doing right now. I am going to live in this crazy, brightly-colored talking world of yours until you’re ready to come home into mine, because I love you.”
I am challenging you to write a story or a scene or a sequence focusing on the lengths someone will go to in order to understand or connect with a child…or some other person who is difficult to reach.
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