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Nostalgia writing experiment poll!
🕑 Added 2025-04-03 18:18:29 +0000 UTCHi friends!
A bit of a silly writing experiment poll as I get back into the swing of things.
Do you remember those old pen-and-paper games we used to play in school? Sometimes by passing notes back to friends, sometimes as we waited for the teacher to show up, other times at sleepovers.
There was MASH (which I knew as standing for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House, though Wikipedia is letting me know that some people played it as Street or Shed or Sewer or a bunch of other options).
And there was also what I grew up calling a "cootie catcher" (lolol) but maybe is more well-known as a Paper Fortune Teller.
For MASH, I'm thinking the categories can be something like when can I work, where will I work, what can I work on, and I don't yet know the fourth category but I'm sure it will come to me!
(As you can see from my current ideas, I could end up having to work on screenwriting before sunrise outside which would pose a very interesting conundrum bahaha.)
These current options aren't set in stone, so I'm happy to take suggestions if y'all wanted to make it REALLY crazy.
As for the Paper Fortune Teller, I'm thinking I would make two. One with a sort of standard yes/no/not now/maybe/etc. and the other one with various writing prompts!
(Photo taken from The Spruce Crafts, just to give y'all an example.)
Now the key for both of these is that they require someone else's involvement (to tell me when to "stop" drawing the swirl for MASH or give me a number or color prompt for the fortune teller). Which means we'll have to find out the results TOGETHER on a Patreon stream! (Sometime in the coming week, when I've fully recovered lol.)
So let me know which of these two ideas you'd like to see -- or if you'd want to see both! :) If I can come up with a third idea, I think it could make for an especially fun sort of "nostalgia writing challenge" video.
As for other upcoming videos, I'll be filming an "I Tried Writing Like...George Orwell!" experiment early next week. I'm also currently filming the organization and early drafting of A Basement Brimming with Bodies (between bouts of coughing and sneezing bahaha).
On a completely different note, I read the news of NaNoWriMo shutting down. This might sound strange, but to me this came as a huge relief. The past year and a half has really tarnished my memory of an organization that brought decades of camaraderie. Now that the event is no longer tethered to anyone, I think I might be able to participate again in November. (At least, in the way that so many people participated, just on their own and tracking without the website.)
Please let me know your thoughts on it shutting down! I really enjoyed our 100KQ4 and also hadn't really "won" a NaNo event in years. Maybe it is just better to move on permanently, too.
That's going to be it from me today. Hope y'all have a fantastic rest of your week! And as always, happy writing. :)
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Kate Cavanaugh Writes
OMG YES please make your own too!
Vicious scribbles
Oh, George Orwell is a fantastic choice (I say as I'm very VERY slowly working my way through his collection of essays). I vote paper fortune teller bc I loved those. I might make one of my own now! Just have to think of the categories lol. As far as NaNo, I'm relieved too. Just to have that clean slate as you said, and having it not be tainted by the knowledge of the badness.
AL
Such a fun idea!! I def want to see both. And I was just thinking the other day how I missed your "write like an author for a day" videos so I'm excited to see George Orwell! I didn't comment on your last post but I did read it and I loved seeing everything you did in Vietnam! That's very interesting about NNWM... I'm kinda glad too!
