Paint drying. Waiting in line.
Let’s come up with the most boring premises imaginable, and then together transform them into stories that are (somehow) actually interesting!
Category: Weird
Books do some aspects of storytelling better, while movies do other aspects better.
Let’s compare some adaptations of books vs. movies, see what’s different, then write our own adaptation together!
Will we go out with the cute barista? The brooding librarian? The sporty classmate???
YOU decide!
Let’s generate some people who don’t exist and write a choose-your-own adventure dating sim with them!
It’s time for some “hamburger” inspiration!
Let’s pick sentences at random from books, use the best ones as the beginning/ending “bun” lines, then fill in the “meat” between them.
TV Tropes has tons of story tropes, from “badass and child duo” to “deceased parents are the best.”
Let’s pick some, vote on the best ones, then use them to write a story!
Today, we do writing science.
Let’s start with a short, simple story and crank up the absurdity bit by bit until it reaches DANGEROUS levels, to see how far we can push the limits of understandability!
Did you know there’s over FIFTY different fantasy sub-genres?
Let’s go over some of them, then take the same story prompt and write it in a bunch of different genres, to see how it changes!
One good creative writing exercise is writing with a stipulation, something like, you can’t use the letter “a,” or you have to write a story with a sentient bag of chips.
One good creative writing form of torture is writing a story with FIVE stipulations!
Character deaths in stories can range from heart-grabbingly tragic to eye-rollingly stupid.
So how do you make sure that the characters in your stories will pluck at heartstrings instead of funny bones?
Let’s find out!
We’ve spent nearly a year and a half on this stream talking about how to write better.
Now, it’s time to throw all of it out the window!