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 Atlas of the Imagination Objective: To create a map and the lore of a fictional place as a group. How to Play: Start with a blank sheet of paper

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 Genre Switch Objective: To explore the conventions of genre by applying them to an unexpected story. How to Play: Take a well-known story, like a fairy tale (“Cinderella”) 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 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,

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