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The Writer’s Playground Series – Word Association Chain
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 Word Association Chain Objective: To bypass the internal editor and get words on the page quickly. How to Play: One person (the facilitator) provides a starting word (e.g., “ocean”).
The Writer’s Playground Series – The Monologue Challenge
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 Monologue Challenge Objective: To reveal deep character truths through their interpretation of a mundane subject. How to Play: The facilitator provides two things to each writer: a character
The Writer’s Playground Series – Blackout Poetry
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 Blackout Poetry Objective: To find poetry in existing text and create striking visual and verbal images. How to Play: Each person gets a page of text from an old
Capacitors, Supercapacitors, and Batteries
Power storage has always been a defining component of electrical products, “defining” meaning the make-or-break for whether the technology is feasible. For many amazing feats of technology found in our favorite science fiction movies and comics, it’s not a question of “How do we make them work?”, it’s “How do we power them?”. Two current
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 – The Emotional Impact Report
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 Emotional Impact Report Objective: To give feedback on the emotional effect of a story, rather than its technical mechanics. How to Play: A writer reads a piece aloud.