No, what you're seeing isn't in your imagination. This Explo at Wellesley returner exudes his passion for writing on his sleeve, literally, as he is transformed into one of the characters in his original screenplay, which he crafted in his Fantasy Writing Course. When Nick isn't pouring his creativity onto the pages, you'll probably find him reading a captivating novel or learning trying to figure out how to code on his computer.
Writing is where you let your imagination loose. It's taking every single idea that you might have had as a child and really just sharing it with the world by putting it on paper. Today in my Fantasy Writing class, we got to do something that most authors never have the chance to do — we got to see the characters in our story come alive. After writing a short book all session in our Fantasy Writing class, we were asked to create a description of one of the characters in our books, so we could actually be transformed into that character. We went over to the Costume, Hair + Make-up Design class and the people in that class actually turned us into the people that we wrote about, it was really incredible.
I chose to be created into one of my secondary characters because they're really important, even though they don't get as much attention as they main characters, so I'd like to give him some attention. The scene that I'm being turned into is actually the scene where he's dying; it's so powerful because he's fighting creatures to save a city, but then, he gets attacked by some creature, which you can see from the three claw marks that are on my arm.
It's kind of remarkable seeing the ideas from your imagination become reality. Explo really helps you accomplish that in so many different ways. For one, there's what I did today in class, where I physically look like the character I created in my mind. Also, Explo has helped me develop what it means to really be a writer. Before Explo, I didn't really understand how to develop a plot in a story; my chapters would only be a few pages and would not really connect in the way I wanted them to. Now, it seems like I'm figuring out how to piece everything together.
Jaryd Frankel