You’ve found the secret to eternal youth: peanut butter. Thanks to your reverse peanut butter allergy, consuming the creamy concoction actually makes you more youthful.
The only problem? You’ve been kind of lazy these past 80 years and forgot to eat any. Now you’re old, weak, and can’t open the jar of Skippy.
For the last stream’s exercise, we went back to a classic exercise: the Japanese poop book.
We’ve done this exercise a couple times before. What we do is 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.
This time, we opened up to the kanji for “meet,” and this is the sentence chat voted for: “At the exercise meet, I participated in the poop-carrying relay race.”
As always, hilarity ensued. Here’s what we came up with:
For the last stream, we did one of my favorite writing exercises: swapping a half-written story with someone and finishing it.
For the stream, faithful viewer Octavia Memories volunteered to participate in the story swap. We both began with the same auto-generated sentence, then wrote for half an hour, swapped stories, and finished the other’s story.
This was always one of my favorite exercises to do during IRL writing workshops, since you can see all the different directions people take the same information. Not only does the same opening sentence lead to completely different starts, but then the endings can become totally different beasts than the beginning.
The sentence we started with was: “She advised him to come back at once.” Here’s the stories we came up with:
