How to Start a Story: A Visualization Game for Writers
So, you’ve got some ideas now, but how do you actually start your story? In this mini-lesson, Naomi guides us through visualizing the start of our stories. One of the best ways to start our characters into a scene is to put them in motion. What physical action might...How to Choose a Just-Right Idea: A Question Game for Writers
How do you get the big ideas out of your head and onto the page? In this mini-lesson we’ll play a game to shake out the ideas in your head so you can put them on paper. One of the ways we choose a meaningful idea is to write about a problem that matters to us. We...
Creating a Meaningful Character
Our most recent Inklings novelist, Sophia Nesamoney, tapped into her life experience and created characters who were extremely meaningful to her personally. Stories are always more engaging when writers care deeply about their characters and the situations they face....
Revision: Three Games to See Writing Through Fresh Eyes
One of my most delightful discoveries about using games to teach writers was the discovery that games go far beyond idea generation. One unexpected beauty of interactive games is the ability to model the questions and experimentation that revision requires. Writers...
