1. Word Crawls.
Want to go on an epic adventure while you write? Try a word crawl! (I'm pretty sure I just sounded like a commercial.) These things are a blast. They are reminiscent of a choose-your-own-adventure book, but the amount of words you write in a certain amount of time dictates what happens next.
Some cool Fandom-related word Crawls...
2. The Apples to Apples creative writing game.
This is a game Katie Grace, her sister, Laura, and my sister, Mickayla Jansen invented. Basically, you play Apples to Apples normally, except the winning player keeps the red card, not the green card. At the end of the game, everyone has to write a short story with all of the items on the red card in the story.
3. Act out a Scene.
When you're home alone (unless you want an audience), act out the next scene in your WIP, video it, and write what happens as you play it back. This is similar to what Hope Pennington does when she writes.
Vlog
Savannah Grace from Scattered Scribblings tagged me to do the Q and A tag, so I decided I would try my hand at vlogging. So get ready for awkwardness, and my strange adoption of some sort of accent that I don't actually have, and watch me answer Savannah's questions!
Music Credits:
Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Cool vlog, you did a really good job for your first vlog! I would also love to be an extra in a Marvel movie! and thoughts ways to get words written sound very interesting. I'll have to check them out.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Marrok! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
DeleteI think you sound a little like Nadine in this vlog :) I loved it!
ReplyDeleteReally?! :) I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Emily.
DeleteWho are you acting as in the play you mentioned?? (And great job on your vlog...they ARE awkward to record, aren't they? ;)
ReplyDeleteI played Mrs. Macready (the mean housekeeper) and Mr. Beaver (the original actor bailed on us and we didn't have enough guys, so I was cast). Thank you so much! I agree, super awkward.
DeleteOh my gosh #2 is absolute genius!! I'm going to have to do that sometime!
ReplyDeleteEven though I'm not doing NaNoWriMo, this was a super helpful, great post!
Elizabeth
http://whimsicalthoughtss.blogspot.com/
It's pretty fun. :) Thank you for reading!
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