FADE IN
Act 1
INT. BEDROOM - 06:50
In bed, PETER opens his eyes.
PETER (V.O.): Oh, I've the urge to write songs again.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): What should be the theme of my next new song?
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I've written many festive songs and I don't want to write silly love songs.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Let me imagine.
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Should I write something about creativity?
Act 2
INT. SITTING ROOM - 11:30
Smart phone in hand, Peter is surfing the web.
PETER (V.O.): The most important quality a job candidate should have these days isn't IQ but CQ?
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): What's CQ?
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Creativity Quotient (CQ) is the measure of a person's creative intelligence.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): How to measure then?
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Just ask a candidate a question related to setbacks. If the candidate shows signs of fear, it is probable that s/he has low CQ.
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): So creativity isn't confined to a personal's artistic expression.
INT. STUDIO - 15:30
Peter tunes a green LTD electric guitar and then a white Traveller with a Fender guitar amplifier.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I haven't played them for months.
Attempting to tune a red Ibanez guitar with a Roland Cube Street, Peter hears no sound from the amplifier.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Anything wrong with the guitar?
Peter checks the connections and turns the switches. But there's no feedback.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Anything wrong the with the guitar amplifier? I meant to use it in the streets but I've never done so.
Peter checks it and discovers something.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Oh, I've plugged the guitar input jack into the microphone input rather than into the instrument input.
As Peter has re-plugged the guitar jack, we hear loud feedback. Peter readjusts the guitar switches.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Problem solved. Good.
Peter begins to play guitar fingering. After a while, he stops.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Oh, I feel pain in my fingertips as the calluses have all gone. I don't think I can write any song today.
Having tuned a white Yamaha bass guitar with a Roland bass guitar amplifier and switched on a rhythm device, Peter plays some bass scales to the beats.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Yes, let me create conditions conducive to creativity first.
Peter then tunes a 12-string Fender Villager, does a few strums and stops,
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Oh my god, I feel tired. When I was in my teens, I used to play hours daily!
Resting in a stool, Peter picks up a book entitled "Abbey Road".
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): When and where did I buy it?
Having turned the book cover, Peter sees on the first page a handwritten name and "1987, London".
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I was about to complete my LLM studies at UCL. I entertained myself in London bookshops.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.): I admired the creative people but didn't think about writing songs myself.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Although I did begin in 2010, I haven't written any song for over two years now. Am I limiting my songwriting psychologically?
Act 3
INT. BEDROOM - 23:45
Peter is about to go to bed.
PETER (V.O.): I believe that human brains, made by stardust, are naturally creative.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Through intelligent thinking of linking the known with the yet-to-be, creativity is learnable.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): If one feels something is limiting one's thinking and linking, what s/he needs to do is to challenge the limitations to unleash his/her creativity.
THE END
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