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The Writer’s Playground Series – Character Hot Seat
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 Character Hot Seat Objective: To flesh out a character’s personality, back-story, and motivations. How to Play: One writer volunteers to put one of their characters (pre-existing, themselves, or made
The Writer’s Playground Series – Rashomon
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 Rashomon Objective: To explore the unreliability of narration and the subjectivity of truth. How to Play: The facilitator outlines a single, dramatic event (e.g., “At midnight, the town’s bell
The Writer’s Playground Series – The “Why” Interrogation
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 The “Why” Interrogation Objective: To help a writer deepen their character motivations and plot logic by gently questioning their choices. How to Play: One writer reads a short scene
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 – The Ticking Clock
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 The Ticking Clock Objective: To practice writing with urgency and building tension. How to Play: The facilitator provides a simple character goal (e.g., “hide a secret document,” “bake a
The Writer’s Playground Series – Show, Don’t Tell: Team Sprint
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 Show, Don’t Tell: Team Sprint Objective: To transform abstract emotional states into concrete, sensory details through rapid brainstorming. How to Play: The facilitator writes a simple, “telling” sentence on