In the Studio 11 Stories and Images

Anna Maria Murphy wrote a number of plays with and for Kneehigh. In this video by Brett Harvey The Secret Writer, you can hear about some of her inspiration and methods.

Anna provides a number of starting points for writing in the tasks below:

Stories and Images

• What story are you burning to tell? 
• Make a list of subjects and stories that have been on your mind for a while.
• Then make a list of images (Think filmically) that go with those ideas. 
• Invent titles. Sometimes I don’t know what the full story is, but still invent a title, e.g: ‘Roger Salmon, A Cornish Detective’. That title gave me a starting point for the disparate stories that I wanted to tell, and I then knew that the structure would be Roger Salmon investigating them.