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Story Man is made up of three important parts: a Beginning, a Middle, and an Ending. The Beginning is vital because it draws you into the story and invites you to stay around as the tale unfolds. The Middle is crucial because it reveals the crisis or conflict that keeps you interested! The Ending is important because it resolves the conflict often in an exciting and unpredictable way! A good story takes you on a journey of the imagination because | |||||||||||||||
© 2003 Storytree Productions by Jerry & Ada Forney
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Story Man is there supporting its every twist and turn! By linking a good beginning to a good middle and ending it is possible to build a strong Story Chain for Story Man to travel along. Below we have some suggestions on how to do this by playing the Story Man Game. | |||||||||||||||
Game Description: Building a Story Chain for Story Man
Main Deck Make up three decks of cards and place in 3 stacks: Beginnings, Middles and Endings. Shuffle and draw a card from each deck. Join them together to create a suggested plot line. Do this several times until you get a Story Chain you feel comfortable with. Character Decks: Create two decks, one with favorite male names on it and one with favorite female names on it. (You can also use a magazine or newspaper to randomly select names). Draw cards from each deck to get suggestions for character names. Animal Decks: If animals figure in the plot or story idea that pops into your head, put animals on a deck of cards and draw from this as well. Additional Deck Ideas Decks can be made up of almost any category you choose: create cards with city names, historical epochs, occupations, physical objects (toys, weapons, appliances, transport systems, technologies etc.). Compatibility and continuity will certainly figure in any sequential mixture of elements randomly drawn from the decks. Feel free to draw again and again until you put together a Story Chain that works for you. You now will have created the backbone of your new story. Draw from additional decks of your own making or existing game decks (old maids, tarot, etc.) until you have a story structure and story elements that inspire you to begin writing. (Add your own ideas to each deck, of course). |
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