The good news: you have the magical power to bring any painting you create to life.
The bad news: you neglected to paint your cat’s skeleton and respiratory system.
Tag: Superhero/Power
If you’ve never seen the website The Fanfic Maker, then you should probably change that immediately by checking it out. It’s amazing. All you have to do is put in some parameters and then bam! You have fresh fanfiction written about whatever you want.
One of my favorite exercises is generating a fanfic, and then going through and editing it to try and make it into something actually readable. It can be quite a challenge, and even though it’s a bit silly, you can learn a lot from it.
Case in point: the story of Serenity and the Stolen Eyeball.
For the last stream’s exercise, we tried a spin on something we’ve done before: editing a viewer’s story.
The previous times we’ve done this, we usually only edited the first few paragraphs. But this time, the story was short enough for us to edit the entire thing, start to finish.
The lucky victim, er, viewer was geibielle, who was kind enough to let us edit their story. Huge thanks to them!
Here’s what their story looked like before and after:
For the last stream, we tried a new exercise: going over how to write action scenes.
This all started when someone in the Discord mentioned that they were having difficulty turning a wrestling move into writing on the page. Here’s what they were trying to write about:
I know nothing about wrestling,
but I know that’s not an easy thing to pull off… in writing!
So to work on writing action scenes, we first went over how to write a good action scene. Then we did an example for the above video, and then another one that chat voted for.
Here’s what we came up with:
For the last stream, we tried out a new exercise: the 7x7x7 exercise.
To do it, you open up to the 7th page of a random book, find the 7th sentence on that page, and then write a 7-line story that starts with that sentence.
The sentence we got was from page seven of Patrick Rothfuss’s book The Wise Man’s Fear: “Graham stood with his thick hand poised to knock on the door.”
It actually ended up being a ton of fun, so much that we wrote two stories, and chat contributed several amazing ones of their own creation.
Here’s what we came up with: (the stories were 7 lines long in Word)