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Story Surgeon: Teenage Faeries Trapped in an Asylum

Sometimes you have an idea for a story but don’t know where to take it, or you have a chapter that’s killing you, or you just have no idea how to even start.

That’s where the Story Surgeon comes in! On the stream, I asked viewers to submit any stories they had that were on life support and in need of emergency operation. We’d take a look at them, operate, and prescribe some medication.

The first Story Surgeon patient was kittyashley, who only had a couple ideas and didn’t know how to turn them into a developed outline/plot.

Thankfully, that’s exactly what the story surgeon specializes in!

A Guardian Angel Saves You From Himself – Writing Stream Recap

Since we’ve been trying out a lot of new exercises recently, for the last stream we went back to the classics: the poop book.

For the “poop book” exercise, we open up a Japanese kanji book to a random page, translate the poop-related example sentences for that kanji, and then chat picks one of them and we start a story with it. We’ve done it a couple times before, always producing hilarious results.

This time, we opened up to the kanji for “combine/group,” and this is the sentence chat voted for: “If you and I combine our powers, then we’ll be able to create even more amazing poops!”

What a crappy starting point! Here’s what we came up with: