Unleashing Creativity: The Power of Storytelling Toolkits
Dive into the world of storytelling toolkits and learn how they can spark creativity, lead your narrative in unexpected directions, and infuse your writing with uniqueness and flair. Discover the art of rewriting a wizard's description using innovative techniques like Dadwavers to break traditional storytelling boundaries and explore new perspectives.
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Storytelling and the importance of a Toolkit
To begin I d like you to write a short description of a wizard. Don t worry too much about technique at this stage: you can keep it simple!
What traditions does your wizard draw on or react against?
Character Imagery Storytelling Tools Setting Point of view Time Showing and telling
Toolkits for Writing
Sentence openings: Dadwavers! https://www.literacyshedblog.com/dadwavers
Lets try it! Rewrite your wizard description and this time, start with one of the Dadwavers and see where it takes you. Whenever you start a new sentence, choose a new Dadwaver.
Toolkits help you to play with traditions. They open up new ways of thinking about a story; can take your ideas in surprising directions; help you to add variation and personality to your writing. They re also very useful when you get stuck!