Post by dreamwriteremmy on Sept 17, 2014 10:12:11 GMT -5
collaborated from a bunch of the other previously posted plotting sprints. originally posted by me (Emmy) for NaNo 2012 (original post)
Sprint #1: 5 min.
Choose a working name for your setting (world/town/city/whatever). Then write either a fast list of as many specific details as possible OR at least 3 sentences.
Sprint #2: 10 min.
What's Your MC's homebase/living quarters/base camp like? (Do they decorate? Is there a view out their window?)
Alternately, if they're adventurers or don't have a homebase/living quarters/base camp, what's their dream home? Or what's in their travel bag/rucksack that makes their traveling camp home? Or what does a typical adventure campsite look like?
Sprint #3: 10 minutes.
Your character's meeting someone new and wants to tell them about who they are, however they aren't allowed to talk. Instead, they've been told to give this person a box of 13 things to read/look at/touch/taste/listen to/smell/whatever. Your challenge is to pick out these 13 things and also WHY they chose them.
Sprint #4: 5 minutes
Make a fast list of all the things your character is afraid of (big or small). Don't worry about if some of your ideas are silly -- you can weed those out later.
Sprint #5: 10 minutes
Choose one of your project's themes (a central concept or idea OR the major conflict eg. love, hate, people need people, good vs evil, man vs man, man vs nature, etc) and write 7 ways you can show it.
Bonus/Homework Sprint #6: 10 minutes
Take a brief at your last 2 sprints...
Make a fast list of potential connections between pieces of both lists to mold them into possible conflicts and resolutions!
Sprint #1: 5 min.
Choose a working name for your setting (world/town/city/whatever). Then write either a fast list of as many specific details as possible OR at least 3 sentences.
Sprint #2: 10 min.
What's Your MC's homebase/living quarters/base camp like? (Do they decorate? Is there a view out their window?)
Alternately, if they're adventurers or don't have a homebase/living quarters/base camp, what's their dream home? Or what's in their travel bag/rucksack that makes their traveling camp home? Or what does a typical adventure campsite look like?
Sprint #3: 10 minutes.
Your character's meeting someone new and wants to tell them about who they are, however they aren't allowed to talk. Instead, they've been told to give this person a box of 13 things to read/look at/touch/taste/listen to/smell/whatever. Your challenge is to pick out these 13 things and also WHY they chose them.
Sprint #4: 5 minutes
Make a fast list of all the things your character is afraid of (big or small). Don't worry about if some of your ideas are silly -- you can weed those out later.
Sprint #5: 10 minutes
Choose one of your project's themes (a central concept or idea OR the major conflict eg. love, hate, people need people, good vs evil, man vs man, man vs nature, etc) and write 7 ways you can show it.
Bonus/Homework Sprint #6: 10 minutes
Take a brief at your last 2 sprints...
Make a fast list of potential connections between pieces of both lists to mold them into possible conflicts and resolutions!
