Patreon Preview #360: Improv Starters
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | So here's some of the sort of chapters or, I don't know if we can call these chapters, but just sort of like the, the way the book is organized is... |
| 0:10.5 | We can't be calling these chapters, right? |
| 0:12.7 | Character, the first half of the book is using character conflicts. |
| 0:17.5 | So it's a bunch of scenarios with different types of conflicts. |
| 0:20.2 | So there's teen parent conflicts. So it's a bunch of scenarios with different types of conflicts. So there's teen |
| 0:20.9 | parent conflicts. We have student. We have, and I'm just saying this now, I've actually never |
| 0:27.2 | cracked this book open, which is awesome. Fun. When you see teen parent conflicts, is that teen |
| 0:32.2 | and parent in conflict, or is that conflicts that teen parents might find themselves? |
| 0:37.7 | God, I hope it's both. |
| 0:39.8 | There's also this, and this is very good, student-teacher conflicts, which maybe this just arose from something he did in class and the students buck-to-case. |
| 0:49.5 | It's like there is a teacher insisting students to improv exercises. |
| 0:54.7 | Conflict number one, why are we doing this? |
| 0:57.2 | Conflict number two. |
| 0:58.6 | Do you really have a wife? |
| 0:59.8 | I don't see a ring. |
| 1:01.3 | Don't most people have a wife have a ring? |
| 1:03.2 | Didn't she run off with your brother? |
| 1:04.6 | We have salesman customer conflicts, etc. |
| 1:07.3 | So a bunch of different sort of conflicts. |
| 1:09.7 | And then as we go on, we have contrasts. We have using lines of dialogue to start the scene, using body language to start the scene, using the environment to start a scene. So maybe for now, this might be something we revisit. Maybe we start with some just some conflicts. I think the conflicts are great. So this, this was billed as like one, |
| 1:44.4 | 1,000. Is that what he said? It's like 1,000 scene starters? 1,000 is such a terrible number. Why not go for a collection of 900? 900. Way more manageable. You can cut out. Basically, it's like if you promised 1,000 and you get to 900, you say like, look, we all know the last hundred weren't going to be fucking good. |
| 1:46.0 | My guess is he wrote the first 900. Like if you promise a thousand and you get to 900, you say like, look, we all know the last |
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