Listen now | Here is the third in our four-part Worldview Genre series. Listen in, or better yet, write along with us as we reveal a writing prompt, brainstorm some ideas, and then speed-write our way through a ten-minute draft. CAST Mary Mack Dr. Bob Newport Andrea Margaret Higgins, Producer
Core Event: Integral cognitive growth or degeneration events.
III. Questions raised by the genre.
How do we solve problem we don’t understand
How do we cope with events our existing belief structure can’t process
How do I understand new information that contradicts the framework of our current knowledge and or beliefs. Note, people choose a world view story to experience relief or satisfaction from emerging whole from a threat to their internal status quo, or to feel pity for a less fortunate character.
IV. Controlling idea suggested by the worldview genre: Wisdom prevails when we learn to accept our gifts in a world we are forced to accept as imperfect.
V. Worldview genre subtypes: The Call to Adventure….
Disillusionment. Protagonist suffers a loss of faith.
Education. Protagonist evolves from meaninglessness to knowledge of meaning and/or purpose.
Maturation. Protagonist grows from a primitive black and white worldview into accepting the reality of ‘shades of gray’.
Revelation. Protagonist gains missing knowledge in order to succeed in reaching his/her goals.
VI. The exercise.
Police Sargent Robert Smith came home tired. He had spent the day on his beat, boringly looking for overturned trash cans and the innumerable signs of vandalism that Friday nights brought to his south Chicago neighborhood. He had heard that a new gang was forming, and his captain gave him the added burden of looking out for gang signs among the carnage.
“Dad! Dad!” his exuberant 13 year old son yelled as he assaulted him while he was climbing his front porch steps. “We’re going camping. Bob and Billy and the guys an’ I, Mom said it was okay if you come! Can we? Can we? Say yes, Daddy. Say yes, please.”
Sargent Robert was not in a good mood. He had found gang signs, new ones. Damn those kids, criminal, just little criminals, they’ll all end up in Statesville! He had been preoccupied with those thoughts as he climbed the stairs, so he wasn’t being too careful in separating the gangbangers from his own vigorous and somewhat immature boys. He had three of them, Robert Junior, the oldest at 15, William, the middle at 14, and Stevie ,13, who was climbing all over him now.
“No! I’m not in the mood and I’m too tired, so no. Don’t even think of it.
Well, you can’t tell a 13-year-old boy to not think of something once he’s already made plans…
He was awakened at 3AM by the insistence vibrating of his cell phone. Not his cell phone, his cop cellphone. Sarg…
DrB.20230807.Cop on the beat, in a forest.
I. Andrea’s prompt generator gives us.
Protagonist; Cop on the beat.
Setting: In a forest.
Genre: Worldview.
Essential tactic: Dismissal.
II. Genre essentials.
The four cores of the Worldview genre are:
Core Need: Self-actualization
Core Value: Wisdom to ignorance
Core Emotion: Satisfaction to pity
Core Event: Integral cognitive growth or degeneration events.
III. Questions raised by the genre.
How do we solve problem we don’t understand
How do we cope with events our existing belief structure can’t process
How do I understand new information that contradicts the framework of our current knowledge and or beliefs. Note, people choose a world view story to experience relief or satisfaction from emerging whole from a threat to their internal status quo, or to feel pity for a less fortunate character.
IV. Controlling idea suggested by the worldview genre: Wisdom prevails when we learn to accept our gifts in a world we are forced to accept as imperfect.
V. Worldview genre subtypes: The Call to Adventure….
Disillusionment. Protagonist suffers a loss of faith.
Education. Protagonist evolves from meaninglessness to knowledge of meaning and/or purpose.
Maturation. Protagonist grows from a primitive black and white worldview into accepting the reality of ‘shades of gray’.
Revelation. Protagonist gains missing knowledge in order to succeed in reaching his/her goals.
VI. The exercise.
Police Sargent Robert Smith came home tired. He had spent the day on his beat, boringly looking for overturned trash cans and the innumerable signs of vandalism that Friday nights brought to his south Chicago neighborhood. He had heard that a new gang was forming, and his captain gave him the added burden of looking out for gang signs among the carnage.
“Dad! Dad!” his exuberant 13 year old son yelled as he assaulted him while he was climbing his front porch steps. “We’re going camping. Bob and Billy and the guys an’ I, Mom said it was okay if you come! Can we? Can we? Say yes, Daddy. Say yes, please.”
Sargent Robert was not in a good mood. He had found gang signs, new ones. Damn those kids, criminal, just little criminals, they’ll all end up in Statesville! He had been preoccupied with those thoughts as he climbed the stairs, so he wasn’t being too careful in separating the gangbangers from his own vigorous and somewhat immature boys. He had three of them, Robert Junior, the oldest at 15, William, the middle at 14, and Stevie ,13, who was climbing all over him now.
“No! I’m not in the mood and I’m too tired, so no. Don’t even think of it.
Well, you can’t tell a 13-year-old boy to not think of something once he’s already made plans…
He was awakened at 3AM by the insistence vibrating of his cell phone. Not his cell phone, his cop cellphone. Sarg…
Okay, readers, this is what I did in ten minutes.
Thanks, as always, for your wisdom and generosity of spirit, Dr. Bob.