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Twitch Chat of the Dead Streaming the Living

Twitch Chat of the Dead Streaming the Living

Published by Scott on April 13, 2018

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:

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Writing About Our Greatest Fears – Writing Stream Recap

Writing About Our Greatest Fears – Writing Stream Recap

Published by Scott on March 17, 2018

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:

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Writing about writing about streaming about streaming – META Writing Stream Recap

Writing about writing about streaming about streaming – META Writing Stream Recap

Published by Scott on February 21, 2018

For the last stream, we did a different sort of exercise: we held a discussion about what type of emote subscribers to our stream should get.

We were recently invited to join the Twitch Affiliate program, and one of the benefits is a subscriber emote. To decide what to go with, we brainstormed ideas the same way we brainstorm for a story: by creating an idea toolbox.

We asked a bunch of questions about the goals of the emote, came up with some answers, and narrowed it down. We still don’t know exactly what we’re going to go with, but it should end up being something that’s fun to use.

After that we moved on to today’s prompt, which was a pretty crazy one….

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