Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a wild journey into the imagination with story brainstorms from listeners based on the “the ethereal rune”. Plus 3 new writing prompts generated by the mysterious word game of Exquisite Corpse. The show also explores deep insights about the writing process and the psychology of discovery writing.

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INTRO: Hello imaginative people! I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 62 of Brainstoryum. I hope you’re ready for some thought-provoking story brainstorms, because today’s Exquisite Corpse games will lead us into various alleyways of thought, particularly: knowing yourself as a writer; acknowledging what it is that sparks off your inspiration (and what doesn’t), so you can bypass potential blocks; and the balance between exploring pre-existing associations you have with words and ideas, and just… letting go and diving in.

All that’s to come in the strange inner labyrinth that is story brainstorming with Exquisite Corpse. But first, I have some feedback from listeners to the show on a writing prompt I shared last time, so let’s get into that...