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Brainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts

Anna Tizard
Brainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts
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  • #84. Stirring the Imagination with “Word Food”; and a Creepy Carnival Story Begins
    Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into the writer’s imagination – at once profound, surprising, funny, and extraordinary. Anna usesthe surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse to generate short story ideas by mixing listener’s word suggestions into weird sentences. The results are imagination-bending, and a real workout for your creative writing. Listen to brand new short stories and scenes as Anna drafts them (she uses the “pause” button to compose them) and learn from tips, techniques and tools she shares along theway: practical ideas that you can use to write suspenseful fiction, especially fantasy.It’s the ultimate writing prompt challenge. Your weekend is not weird enough (or creative enough) without Brainstoryum! Subscribe for free to Anna Tizard’s private email list and receive an e-book to begin your journey into The Book of Exquisite Corpse (includes exclusive material not published anywhere else). Go to annatizard.com.INTRO: Hello imaginative people! I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 84 of Brainstoryum.I mentioned last time how, lately, circumstances have left me a bit isolated, and I haven’t been able to get out as much as I’d like, and it’s not that long before the four walls start to feel a frustrating. It prompted me to think about a phrase Iused to use more, among friends, to describe a book or short story that is so well written it makes you feel nourished. I’d say it was “word food”, because as an author, maybe it is true to some degree that you are what you read (or have read, and have valued reading). It’s not quite as direct as “you are what you eat” because that’s more physical, to do with literal nutrition affecting how well your cells regenerate and all the millions of bodily processes that go on; but you get the idea. Some stories and poems make us feel nourished; and they’re likely good for our writing, as we naturally absorb the rhythms and sounds and general deliciousness of quality literature. But oneexperience reminded me, unexpectedly of this “word food” idea and how I should probably extend it to “experience food” (if that’s not too ridiculous) because all life is experience, everything that happens to us affects how we feel; some events may even change us, the way we think; what we expect. And if we find ourselves stuck indoors with the “four walls of the apocalypse” as we nicknamed them during the COVID lockdowns, it will help not just our writing but our overall mental health if we find ways to stimulate our imaginations, or just – seek out interesting facts on blogs or in podcasts, if nothing else. What happened – and this is quite a boring problem,low-stress – is I lost...
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  • #83. Writing Fights With Purpose & How Stories Can Show You What You Need
    The ultimate writing prompt challenge. Your weekend is not weird enough (or creative enough) without Brainstoryum!This is the third and final episode delving into tips and techniques on fight scene writing, with reference to Marie Brennan's outstanding book, Writing Fight Scenes.Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into the writer’s imagination – at once profound, surprising, funny, and extraordinary. Anna usesthe surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse to generate short story ideas by mixing listener’s word suggestions into weird sentences. The results are imagination-bending, and a real workout for your creative writing.Listen to brand new short stories and scenes as Anna drafts them (she uses the “pause” button to compose them) and learn from tips, techniques and tools she shares along theway: practical ideas that you can use to write suspenseful fiction, especially fantasy.Subscribe for free to Anna Tizard’s private email list and receive an e-book to begin your journey into The Book of Exquisite Corpse (includes exclusive material not published anywhere else). Go to annatizard.com.
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  • #82. More on Writing Fight Scenes – and an Alice in Wonderland-Style Story
    Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into the writer’s imagination – at once profound, surprising, funny, and extraordinary. Anna usesthe surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse to generate short story ideas by mixing listener’s word suggestions into weird sentences. The results are imagination-bending, and a real workout for your creative writing.Listen to brand new short stories and scenes as Anna drafts them (she uses the “pause” button to compose them) and learn from tips, techniques and tools she shares along theway: practical ideas that you can use to write suspenseful fiction, especially fantasy.It’s the ultimate writing prompt challenge. Your weekend is not weird enough (or creative enough) without Brainstoryum!Subscribe for free to Anna Tizard’s private email list and receive an e-book to begin your journey into The Book of Exquisite Corpse (includes exclusive material not published anywhere else). Go to annatizard.com.Hello imaginative people. I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 82 of Brainstoryum.In the last show there were so many useful, incredibly practical pieces of advice offered by fellow writers who have more experience than I do in writing fight scenes: from testing out moves physically, considering the feasible skill levels of your characters (or their lack of skill) before diving in, using shorter sentences to create a sense of speed and pace, to ensuring that you hone in on the emotional and psychological experience of your protagonist as the fight unfolds. It’s a lot to think about, I find; a lot to take in. I’m wary of trying to take in too much at once, because these things take time and practice to really absorb, and it’s quite easy, I think, to intimidate ourselves out of a writing exercise by thinking too much about technique.Now, I want to continue with this deep-dive and learn more about how to write fight scenes, although I think it’s important to keep the balance between spending time thinking critically – consciously and conscientiously – about these things, and following the white rabbit of inspiration. Because there comes a moment when you pick up the pen, or touch your fingers to the keyboard, and to capture the wonder that we experience in reading great stories, as writers, certainly in the first draft, I think it’s worth giving in to the subconscious mind, and letting yourself be led down a pathway whose twists and turns you can’t yet see. So let’s turn our attention for a little while to technique, then it will be time to begin an unplanned, spontaneous adventure into the imagination, which I think is vital nourishment to our creativity.
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  • #81. Fight Scene Special! How to Write Fight Scenes Plus Zany Ideas and New Short Fiction
    Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into the writer’s imagination – at once profound, surprising, funny, and extraordinary. Anna usesthe surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse to generate short story ideas by mixing listener’s word suggestions into weird sentences. The results are imagination-bending, and a real workout for your creative writing.Today's episode showcases experienced authors' hot tips and hot takes on how to write fight scenes, followed by 3 new story brainstorms, and a brand new short story - which, naturally, includes a fight scene!Your weekend is not weird enough (or creative enough) without Brainstoryum!Subscribe for free to Anna Tizard’s private email list and receive an e-book to begin your journey into The Book of Exquisite Corpse (includes exclusive material notpublished anywhere else). Go to annatizard.com. 
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  • #80. What Can We Learn From the Miss Peregrine Series? (Plus New Short Story Ideas)
    Joinaward-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into the writer’simagination – at once profound, surprising, funny, and extraordinary. Anna usesthe surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse to generate short story ideas bymixing listener’s word suggestions into weird sentences. The results areimagination-bending, and a real workout for your creative writing.Listen to brandnew short stories and scenes as Anna drafts them (she uses the “pause” buttonto compose them) and learn from tips, techniques and tools she shares along theway: practical ideas that you can use to write suspenseful fiction, especiallyfantasy.It’s theultimate writing prompt challenge. Your weekend is not weird enough (orcreative enough) without Brainstoryum!Subscribe forfree to Anna Tizard’s private email list and receive an e-book to begin yourjourney into The Book of Exquisite Corpse (includes exclusive material notpublished anywhere else). Go to annatizard.com.INTRO: Hello imaginative people! I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 80 of Brainstoryum.As I mentioned last time, today I’m going to talk a bit about a series I absolutely love that has monstrous themes at its heart: Ransom Riggs’ Peculiar Children series, which begins with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. They made that one into a movie; didn’t like it, haven’t watched it since, but my goodness, I don’t know how many times I have read the book – or the whole series, because I just love it. As an author, I have to ask, why? What is it that I love so much? And can I pin-point these story elements, themes or types of things going on, to transform them into something that’s uniquely my own, in my writing? This is a great exercise for any writer for honing in on the real stuff that excites you. The better you know yourself as a reader, and why you enjoy what you enjoy, the more you can tap into the same kind of magic in your writing. And that sort of excitement is infectious: if you’re excited about what you’re writing, this will come across in the style – let alone your fundamental choices about what you write about.Now, while the Peculiar Children series is mainly built around monsters, the threat of these monsters who have tentacles coming out of their mouths and basically eat your soul (pretty way out there stuff), Riggs casts the philosophical net a bit wider. The peculiar children who have various oddities and strange powers are effectively outcasts from ordinary life, and are wrongly considered a threat to others. They have to live apart from the real world, in time loops. So there’s this lingering question of “What is a monster? Are some people labelled monsters unfairly?” And the protagonist, whose life is painfully banal, or so he feels, gets to experience this incredible acceptance and belonging in the peculiar group when he finally meets them, who become less peculiar to him once there’s acceptance and understanding on both sides. A thought-provoking element of the story; I appreciate a bit of chin-stroking, when it’s cleverly incorporated into the story itself and the protagonist’s emotional experience.But grey areas aside, the real, undeniable monsters inthe story...
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Brainstorm stories using the surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse - a creative writing challenge you'll never forget! Hosted by award-winning dreampunk & fantasy author Anna Tizard. The game produces strange, often hilarious sentences, but after a bit of head-scratching (and tea drinking!), they inspire weird & unexpected stories. This show has evolved: Shows 37 & later focus more on storytelling, and the story brainstorms are deeper & richer. Shows 28-33 are Alice in Wonderland specials. Earlier shows include profound discussions on writing before game play. Dive in and don't look back!
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