Your weekend is not weird enough without Brainstoryum!

Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into the imagination with weird and wild Exquisite Corpse writing prompts resulting from a LIVE GAME SESSION! In this special show, Anna will brainstorm stories from several Exquisite Corpses and finish with a completed short story based on some of these results. It will be creepy and dark, so grab a blanket and a hot beverage and be prepared for some shivers.

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INTRO: Hello imaginative people! I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 65 of Brainstoryum.

I hope you’re ready for some weird and wild story ideas because today’s show is full of them in this special episode reflecting on a live game session I was lucky enough to be a part of.

That's right – I mentioned last time that I was getting really excited about a live storytelling event in Brighton, where I live, where I was building up to hosting a round of Exquisite Corpse with that audience, some of whom are actual, professional storytellers.

The logical part of my brain said I should be nervous. I only felt excited – until I got there. And when I walked in, when I stood up there on the little stage area, I knew anything could happen. When you’re mixing other people’s words, you really don’t have any control over what is coming. I had no pause button, no pot of green tea…

But it was enormous fun, everyone got into it, and the results were of course, completely bizarre – and got us all thinking about some story ideas. At the end of the session, I announced my challenge: to write a complete short story based on some of the results of that evening. (At this, there were some baffled and slightly disbelieving stares, as you might expect!)

So today’s show is going to be a bit different without the socks of destiny, but in fact, there will be more ExCos, more story brainstorms, and, as promised, one completed short story which I’ve written based the results – and it is almost startlingly creepy and very dark. So be warned.

As ever, these weird word combinations prompted me to explore characters and situations that I would not otherwise dream up on my own. And I hope it does the same for you.