Creative Writing Group: Game Edition

To the people who thought Creative Writing Group is boring, you are wrong. We had fun at the Game edition! After giving feedback to my (Cara's) text, we started by playing with story cubes. For people who do not know what cubes I am talking about, they are little dices which have strange images on them. You roll them, try to interpret the images and then let your imagination run wild. The stories that come out of this game are often quite silly, because life is a lot easier with a sense of humor.

For this game, we were divided into two groups. Each group received a set of cubes and had to write a little story together. Each group member had to roll the dice, write a sentence and then pass everything on to the next group member. These were the results:

Once upon a time, there was an airplane. On the plane, there were sheep. One of these sheep was busy reading. Then a turtle stabbed its eye. So the other sheep came and locked the turtle up.

One day at the beach, there was a tent where Harry Potter was fighting a mean old dragon. In the background, an evil emoji was humming the Harry Potter theme song to set the mood. The dragon was very tired, so he drank some water from a kettle, not knowing there was a potion inside that would turn him into a giant.

After the story cubes, it was time to bring out Cards Against Humanity. The rules are simple. This awkward game consists of black and white cards with short sentences or expressions on them. Each player gets five white cards. The game starts when a player pulls out a black card, the other players then have to choose from their white cards which one (or two, depending on what the black card says) would fit best with it. After this, the leading player reads all the answers out loud and chooses the best combination of black and white cards. The player who created that combination gets a point. We did two full rounds and had trouble keeping calm sometimes.

When we had recovered from all the laughter, we all wrote a little story about one of our winning combinations. It was time for the last part of our meeting: talking about poetry. We took turns reading a stanza from Among School Children by William Butler Yeats, and discussed it briefly. We actually ended up talking about its presence or absence in our English literature courses. Although, the discussion was heated when the subject of Bob Dylan and Nobel Prize came up. Poetry is not our strong suit, but we are working on it!

The next meeting is 22 november. Save the date! Aline, Laurence and I look forward to seeing you all there!

Until then!

 - Cara