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Exercise 10: Stream-of-Consciousness (Basic
Questions)
They must think ...
If I was God I would ...
The next thing they will be doing is ...
It would be poetic justice if ...
It’s just like ...
In a parallel universe ...
What’s really ridiculous is ...
If I could change just one thing ...
What really gets to me is ...
The one thing I want to say to them is ...
If they were members of my family ...

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Exercise 11: Stream-of-Consciousness (Things
You Secretly Love or Hate)
We all love hearing secrets as long as they are other people’s. We can use this for
our  comedy,  although,  as  one  of  my  students  said,  ‘If  we  tell  you  what  we
secretly love and hate it won’t be a secret anymore.’
Yeah, but think how much better you’ll feel!
I secretly love/hate ...
It makes me feel ...
It’s really good / bad because ...
I don’t want people to know because ...
People who do this are ...
When I’m pretending the opposite I feel ...

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