Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a wild journey into the imagination with this new episode packed with creative writing ideas, stories and insights. Listeners share short story ideas based on “the creepy writing desk”. Plus enjoy 3 new writing prompts generated by the mysterious word game of Exquisite Corpse.

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INTRO: Hello imaginative people! I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 64 of Brainstoryum.  

Today, as ever, I will be making excellent use of the “pause” button to brainstorm story ideas from the bizarre and always challenging game of ExCo. (I do like a good writing prompt challenge.) Please join in if you fancy giving it a go yourself: grab a pen and reach for your pause button if you feel the stirrings of a story idea you want to try. For writing is the practice of wonder… We never quite know what’s going to happen next, and that’s the real magic of the imagination.  

First, I’ll be sharing some story ideas from listeners who did just that: hit the pause button and wrote down what they thought might happen in a story about the “creepy writing desk”. Was it horror, fantasy, thriller writing, or a mix of all three?

Stay tuned to find out, then afterwards, I’ll be reaching into the socks of destiny for 3 new journeys into our imagination.