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 Eavesdrop Objective: To create context and story from a fragment of conversation. How to Play: The facilitator plays a 15-30 second audio clip of two people talking, preferably

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 A Day in the Life Objective: To understand a fictional world from multiple, everyday perspectives. How to Play: The group agrees on a specific, interesting setting (e.g., “a magical

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 Mystery: The Clue Web Objective: To practice creating layered clues and red herrings, the lifeblood of a mystery. How to Play: The facilitator presents a central crime puzzle (e.g.,

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 Dialogue Only Objective: To convey plot, character, and subtext using only dialogue. How to Play: The facilitator provides a simple scenario (e.g., “Two people are stuck in an elevator,”