This exercise is designed to help more chatty groups organize their time visually during workshop sessions.

For writers prone to internet and YouTube rabbit holes, turn the distraction into an opportunity to explore language.

One reason writers become distracted in workshop is that they don’t know what to write next. This exercise is meant to help them dig deeper into their character, getting to know them on a personal level and root themselves in their story.

A meta version of the Writopia classic, this game is meant to help writers reflect on their own process, including what gets in the way of writing. They explore obstacles both external and internal.

An exercise in memory, fiction, and revision, this game expands revision beyond simply the process of polishing our work by helping us reimagine and reclaim memories of our characters or of our own.

This revision game asks writers to expand a sentence from an abandoned story and then begin a new short piece starting with the new sentence. They’re invited to see something they’ve made before in a different light and build something new from it.

A revision game designed to help young writers see stories they’ve already written in a new light (and different time frame) and produce a new short version of a past story, in one or two sessions.

Help generate specific group discussions around one another’s writing, steeped in curiosity and inquiry.

This game is designed for the online workshop to help foster a workshop community and get our writers comfortable sharing their work with each other.

This exercise is for middle grade writers to begin to practice giving strengths-based feedback on a piece by an anonymous writer who’s not in the room.