So as it turns out, when you die you don’t go to Heaven or Hell. You just go to the Light Team or the Dark Team, to square off in an eternal game of afterlife sportsbucket.
Although there is one person who doesn’t play for either team. He is the legendary, the one and only, the… Gray Team Member.
And he is the referee of the eternal match.
For the last stream’s exercise, we wrote a submission to fellow writing streamer Erica Drayton’s online magazine StoryZine.
We had four prompts to pick from and chat voted for this one: “Write a story about an “oddities collector.”
I don’t want to post our story just yet, since hopefully it will appear in the magazine, but I will say this: the story’s title is “Organic Medicine.” Take that however you will!
After that we did a writing prompt and chat voted for this one submitted by SuperBreakfast: “It has been discovered that in the afterlife, the deceased humans can now “spectate” anyone on Earth. You just got a notification stating that you have 300,000 people spectating you, in first person, for the rest of your life.”
We decided to take this in a unique direction. Rather than from the point of view of the person themself, we went with the point of view of the people watching. Specifically, the point of view of the chat, basing it off Twitch stream chat.
Here’s what we came up with:
For the last stream’s exercise, we I decided to try a new kind of exercise: writing our greatest fear.
To start, we brainstormed a bunch of fears, then chat voted on the one we’d write (“social situations” was the winner). We then wrote three opening sentences for three different social fears, and in the end, “chatting on Twitch” was the winner.
For the exercise we wrote for 30 minutes about a character going through that fear, then we stopped, wrote the sentence “Then I decided not to be afraid anymore,” and had the character overcome it.
It’s a different exercise than we usually do, but it was a lot of fun. Fear can be a great driving force for a character, and this was no exception.
Here’s what we came up with:
