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 Sound Scape Objective: To practice using auditory details to build mood and reveal a character’s internal state. How to Play: The entire group sits in silence for three minutes

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 Blackout Poetry Objective: To find poetry in existing text and create striking visual and verbal images. How to Play: Each person gets a page of text from an old

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 Dialogue Only Objective: To convey plot, character, and subtext using only dialogue. How to Play: The facilitator provides a simple scenario (e.g., “Two people are stuck in an elevator,”

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 The B-Plot Objective: To practice weaving subplots into a main narrative. How to Play: As a group, quickly outline a simple A-Plot (e.g., “A detective must solve a murder

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