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The Writer’s Playground Series – The Story Spine
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 Story Spine Objective: To practice fundamental story structure. How to Play: Based on the classic Pixar story formula, each person in the group takes one line of the
The Writer’s Playground Series – Mystery: The Clue Web
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.,
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 – Exquisite Corpse
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 Exquisite Corpse Objective: To create a surreal and unpredictable narrative by hiding previous contributions. How to Play: Each person has a piece of paper. The facilitator gives a sequence
The Writer’s Playground
Welcome to The Writer’s Playground – Online Purchase on Amazon This book is built on a simple but powerful premise: that games are not a distraction from the serious work of writing, but a direct path to its heart. Play is the native language of imagination. It’s how we experiment without fear, build worlds without
The Writer’s Playground: 50 Games to Spark Imagination and Sharpen Your Craft
Buy Now on Amazon Is the blank page staring back at you? Inside, you’ll find dozens of games to help you: Forge complex characters in the Character Hot Seat. Construct intricate worlds with the Atlas of the Imagination. Master suspense and pacing with The Ticking Clock. Craft brilliant, sharp dialogue in Dialogue Only scenarios. Spin collaborative tales and generate hilarious,