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The Writer’s Playground Series – Horror: The Unseen Thing
Thank you for joining us in The Writer’s Playground series! Here we run through writing games to spark imagination and sharpen your craft. Today’s Exercise is Horror: The Unseen Thing Objective: To create fear and tension by describing everything except the monster/threat. How to Play: Given a setting (e.g., “a campsite at night,” “an old
The Writer’s Playground Series – Motif Weaving
Thank you for joining us in The Writer’s Playground series! Here we run through writing games to spark imagination and sharpen your craft. Today’s Exercise is Motif Weaving Objective: To practice the use of recurring imagery to unify a narrative. How to Play: Begin a collaborative “Round Robin” story. The first person must introduce a
The Writer’s Playground Series – Atlas of the Imagination
Thank you for joining us in The Writer’s Playground series! Here we run through writing games to spark imagination and sharpen your craft. Today’s Exercise is Atlas of the Imagination Objective: To create a map and the lore of a fictional place as a group. How to Play: Start with a blank sheet of paper
The History of Batteries
From the Baghdad Battery of 2,000 years ago to the Nano Diamond Battery being developed to serve our power needs of tomorrow, batteries have come a long way and have a long way to go. 1749 – The first recorded use of the term “battery” in the sense of an electrical device was by Benjamin
The Writer’s Playground Series – Just an Entrance and an Exit
Thank you for joining us in The Writer’s Playground series! Here we run through writing games to spark imagination and sharpen your craft. Today’s Exercise is Just an Entrance and an Exit Objective: To understand that every character should enter and leave a scene with a clear purpose. How to Play: The group establishes a
The Writer’s Playground Series – Five Senses Snapshot
Thank you for joining us in The Writer’s Playground series! Here we run through writing games to spark imagination and sharpen your craft. Today’s Exercise is Five Senses Snapshot Objective: To practice immersive, descriptive writing. How to Play: The facilitator provides a prompt, which is a place or a situation (e.g., “an abandoned carnival,” “a