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 Prop Bag Objective: To build a story around a concrete, unexpected object. How to Play: Before the meeting, the facilitator fills a bag with an assortment of random,

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 Screenwriting: The Silent Scene Objective: To practice visual storytelling and conveying emotion and plot through action alone. How to Play: The group is given a simple scenario (e.g., “A

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 Escalating Sentence Story Objective: To build a story with extreme conciseness and a focus on rhythm. How to Play: Writers must tell a complete story following a strict

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 Artifact Objective: To build a world’s history through a single object. How to Play: The facilitator presents a simple, mysterious object (this can be a real object or

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 Five Senses Snapshot Objective: To practice immersive, descriptive writing. How to Play: The facilitator provides a prompt, which is a place or a situation (e.g., “an abandoned carnival,” “a