Let's tell a story, all together!
Rules? Hmmm.
You get three words.
Do whatever you like with them to add to the story. Finish a sentence, continue a sentence, start and end a sentence, end and start a sentence. I'm sure you've done things like this before.
Try to stick to traditional...
Dear Audrey,
The writer's having a break trying to think what's happening next, and the MC is sitting in a canoe in the middle of the jungle unable to decide what direction to go in. It's pretty quiet and I figured I could take a quick break. This swamp stinks. Hope to be home soon. Don't...
Join me in a little self-embarrassment by digging through your files, papers and half-forgotten forum posts to find the oldest piece of writing you've yet to delete.
Mine was posted on this site in early 2016, and although reading it again gives me a minor case of the red cheeks, I must say that...
Let's play a game to help get some creative juices flowing. Write an opening line. Not one that you have already written or one that you have read, but a whole new opening line. Have fun with it yall. Here are some of mine from games past:
"Have you ever been shot to death? I have. It's not as...
I thought it'd be fun to restart an old story game some of you might remember.
With the OP I'll begin a story with a character name and a simple sentence. Each poster will continue the story with a new sentence, alternating between fortunately and unfortunately. Every couple of pages, when it...
The idea is that someone posts a character created on Hero Forge Custom Miniatures or similar sites and others come up with a short background for the character. Special thanks goes to Steerpike for inspiring the name of this thread. Saved me some time :p
First character:
I'd like to introduce a new writerly game! You take a book title, and you suggest a version of the name that "didn't quite make it."
Some examples of classic books:
A Farewell to Limbs
For Whom The Bell Rings
The Once and Scheduled King
From modern fantasy/scf-fi...
The Roller of...