Friends, I have a question

[lea_hazel]

Does anyone have experience with using bingo cards to try and kickstart writing a long-form story? Has anyone tried to do this? Generate a card, somehow, for the prompts to help yourself get going, except each prompt corresponds to a section of a longer tale, instead of one whole complete story.

I am trying to move past the planning stages of a project, and freely admit that I'm starting to get desperate.

Comments

[jtthomas]

I do, actually. I use bingo for worldbuilding , which in turn gives me new ideas for where the plot might go. Works a bit better for fantasy, though. (I don't formally do any of the bingo challenges with those, though. Frequency is different so it works better at an individual pace.)

[lea_hazel]

A worldbuilding bingo is a very good idea. That's another piece I've been stalling on. Thanks.

Edit: It will however have to wait, because the library mysteriously blocks the card generator.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> A worldbuilding bingo is a very good idea. That's another piece I've been stalling on. Thanks. <<

There's a worldbuilding list already up on the generator, as we did a fest on that theme a while back.

>> Edit: It will however have to wait, because the library mysteriously blocks the card generator.<<

Library censorship is the opposite of helpful. It teaches people not to bother with libraries, and then they lose funding and go away. >_