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

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 Motif Weaving Objective: To practice the use of recurring imagery to unify a narrative. How to Play: Begin a collaborative “Round Robin” story. The first person must introduce 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 Memory Palace of Scent Objective: To tap into the powerful connection between scent and memory to generate emotionally resonant prose. How to Play: The facilitator brings several small,

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 Object Biography Objective: To find the extraordinary in the ordinary and practice telling a story from an unconventional perspective. How to Play: Everyone chooses a mundane object they have

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.