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

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 Unreliable Narrator Objective: To practice the subtle art of misleading the reader through a first-person narrator. How to Play: The facilitator tells the group the “objective truth” of

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 Holiday Objective: To reveal cultural values and history through the invention of a tradition. How to Play: The group invents a new holiday for a specific fictional world.

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 Metaphor Mash-Up Objective: To practice creating original and powerful metaphors and similes. How to Play: Create two lists of random nouns on a whiteboard. List A should be concrete,

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 Sentence Stretch Objective: To practice adding complexity, detail, and rhythm to prose. How to Play: The facilitator provides a simple, declarative sentence (e.g., “The man opened the door.”). The