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 Conjunction Game Objective: To understand how sentence flow and logical connection are built. How to Play: Given a simple prompt, writers must construct a paragraph where every sentence

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 Metaphor Mash-Up Objective: To practice creating original and powerful metaphors and similes. How to Play: Create two lists of random nouns on a whiteboard. List A should be concrete,

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 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 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,