#75. On Writing Short Stories for the Zeitgeist: Monsters Emerge

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Brainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts

Anna Tizard

95 episodes

1 week ago

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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#75. On Writing Short Stories for the Zeitgeist: Monsters Emerge

Brainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts

51 minutes 11 seconds

8 months ago

#75. On Writing Short Stories for the Zeitgeist: Monsters Emerge

Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into the imagination with tips, techniques and tools you can use to write suspenseful creature fiction for the zeitgeist (including a juicy theory on what that means today). Anna uses the surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse to generate short story ideas.

Ignite your imagination with the ultimate writing promptchallenge. Your weekend is not weird enough (or creative enough) without Brainstoryum!

INTRO: Hello imaginative people! I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 75 of Brainstoryum. I’m ready to learn more about writing suspenseful creature fiction – are you? (You can of course, just listen for fun and entertainment; you do not need to be a writer to enjoy the craziness and imagination-yoga of this show.)

But before we get into all that, last time I promised to share with you a juicy theory I found in the wilds of the world wide web on why confronting monsters in fiction is a more pertinent theme than ever. Because fantasy isn’t just escape, it’s experiences that we want to have within the safe haven of our imagination, and that can be cathartic for things that are troubling us in reality.Now, this article I came across, in fact it was apodcast, I was just reading the transcription, on a website called...