Writing A Script About Spiders... (Not Really Either)
Finally, I have reached the last writing sample prompt for my application to the MFA Screenwriting program at FSU Film. It's taken many months of planning, drafting, and writing to get to this point, but now I'm finally ready to tackle my final script for the application... which happens to be the first prompt assigned. Hopefully I wasn't supposed to do this in a specific order! The prompt goes as follows: A two-page non-dialogue scene about a person trying to kill a spider in his/her home. Immediately, my instinct with this piece is to lean comedic. After all, the first thing that comes to mind when I read the prompt is the mental image of one of the Three Stooges trying to kill a spider in a kitchen or something, resulting in much physical comedy and gags where the person gets hurt and the spider gets out without a scratch. And as fun as writing a Three Stooges sketch sounds, I have to assume that if it was my first thought, it was also everyone else's first ...