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 Eavesdrop
- Objective: To create context and story from a fragment of conversation.
- How to Play: The facilitator plays a 15-30 second audio clip of two people talking, preferably with no context. The group’s task is to write the scene that happens immediately before or immediately after the overheard dialogue.
- Best for: Dialogue, inference, and story generation.
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