5 Games to Flex your Creativity Muscles
Without breaking the bank on exciting adventures
The biggest issue every storyteller faces.
How do I come up with stories to tell?
Everyone on social media: Live an exciting life.
Cool. What the heck does that mean? And it sounds like it costs a lot of money.
Instead, here are 5 Games to flex your creativity muscle & become a storytelling powerhouse without breaking the bank.
I wrote 157 Stories using these games over 3 years. Publishing 1 story a week.
Game 1: Metaphor Game
Metaphor Game is pretty simple.
Take 1 activity, object, or action.
And describe it using a metaphor for another activity, object, or action.
Example: Describe the Milky-Way as a Milkshake.
And expand it into a poem or short story.
Game 2: 3 Nouns + 1 Genre
One of my favorites.
Ask a friend to give you 3 Nouns & 1 Genre.
Then craft a story involving the 3 Nouns in the given genre.
I’ve got crazy ideas from friends:
Genre: Detective Story with
- Raspberry Bush
- Loaf of Bread
- Polar Bear
Game 3: Random Article
Find Wikipedia’s Random Article button.
Hit it 3 times.
And you’ve got 3 separate ideas to combine into 1 story.
If this doesn’t flex your creative muscles, I don’t know what will.
I just did it & got the following.
- Avranches Massacre
- Spook & Destroy
- Nangur, India
Game 4: Explosion or Inversion
Take something common in real life.
Jack it up to 1000 OR do the complete opposite.
And you’ll get some interesting ideas.
- What if it was law for everyone to be married?
- What if people got around using only cars?
- What if everyone had superpowers?
Game 5: Photo Power
Stock Photos are great creative fuel.
Plenty is available online.
Grab 1 & write a story or poem to it.
An easy exercise to flex your creativity.
Here’s one to get you started:
What’s the story in this image?
If you’re worried it may not apply to your field, here’s the secret:
Storytelling frameworks are tool.
How & where you use it decides how effective it is for your work.
Start small & get creative on using storytelling elements like structure.
Here’s an easy start: Construct your emails for readability for the other person.
Start with the main point at the top & conclusion or action at the top. then go into more detail later down the email.
Doing this will improve your storytelling skills because structure is the biggest skill to learn.
