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The Writer’s Playground Series – The What-If Machine
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 What-If Machine Objective: To generate unique story concepts by randomly combining core elements. How to Play: Create three hats or bowls. In the first hat, everyone adds slips
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 – The Unreliable Narrator
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
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 Series – Voice Mimicry
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 Voice Mimicry Objective: To analyze and replicate the core elements of an author’s unique voice. How to Play: The facilitator reads a paragraph from an author with a highly
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