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 Round Robin Story (or “Pass-Along”) Objective: To create a spontaneous story and practice adapting to others’ ideas. How to Play: Someone starts a story with a single sentence. The

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

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 Word Association Chain Objective: To bypass the internal editor and get words on the page quickly. How to Play: One person (the facilitator) provides a starting word (e.g., “ocean”).

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

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

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