“Unleash Your Inner Wordsmith: Discover the Surprising Truth Behind Creative Writing Debates!”
The Exercise
First, you’ll need to pick an issue or philosophical question (suggestions are provided below). Write a piece of dialogue between two speakers in which they engage in a debate, with each taking an opposing side in the argument. Write it as a simple script. Here are some topics to get you started:
- One speaker believes in a supreme being or higher power, and the other does not.
- Fate or free will? One believes in destiny, the other believes that life’s outcome is strictly the result of choice and circumstance.
- Do good and evil exist? One believes good and evil are struggling to eradicate each other. Another argues that good and evil are relative, subjective, or mere human imaginings.
- Are morals and ethics circumstantial or static? One believes it’s always wrong to kill another person, no matter the circumstance. The other believes in the death penalty or self-defense.
- One speaker believes in life after death, and the other believes it all just ends.
Another source of ideas for philosophical debates is political issues.
