Ingredients:
- Characters
- Settings
- Items and any other odds and ends that have the “spark”
- 250 verbs
- A room full of writers
Directions:
Five minutes before writer’s group officially starts, hand out printed documents and scissors. Provide three mixing bowls and a colander (or a fourth mixing bowl if you are an adult and own that many) for each category.
Each writer draws one setting, two characters and at least three verbs (some took a “pinch”!) and writes. We do not set a time limits.
Results will be hilarious, dramatic, and spectacular.
Here’s a link to the doc I used with my writer’s group to get you started. I used a Pinterest board to collect ideas.
Amber Benbow 