Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a wild journey into the imagination with story brainstorms from listeners based on the “brittle cartographer”. Plus 3 new writing prompts generated by the mysterious word game of Exquisite Corpse. Your creative writing adventure starts here!

Subscribe for free to Anna Tizard’s private email list and get vol 1 in The Book of Exquisite Corpse plus exclusive material not published anywhere else! All at www.annatizard.com.

INTRO:

Hello imaginative people! I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 60 of Brainstoryum. 60? Really? It’s hard to believe. So many journeys down the rabbit hole… and yet each one is different, unique. Well, I guess that’s the magic of Exquisite Corpse; and there is a certain magic in dedicating a little bit of time to randomness and pure imagination on a regular basis. Long may it continue!

In the last few episodes, I’ve been digging deep into the mysterious process of discovery writing, and the workings of the unconscious mind… Well, this time the whimsical meanderings will be down the pathways of ideas – the story ideas of my fantastic, imaginative listeners – because I had so many responses about the writing prompt I shared at the end of episode 59, that this is going to take up the first chunk of the show. And they’re so good, I want to delve into each of them a little bit, and wonder “what’s next”. So let’s do that, before we turn our attention to even more story ideas...