Episode 191 - Engineering Ideas: Allowing Yourself to Play

About this episode

The hosts explore how different writers generate and develop ideas using The Story Engine deck.

This week, Marshall, Nick, and Brent use The Story Engine deck and expansions to show how ideas for writing can form and vary from writer to writer. Not surprisingly, they have a blast! Links mentioned during the show: The Story Engine Support the Show: Patreon Kofi Indie Bound Contact us! JustKeepWriting.org Discord Facebook Instagram YouTube Marshall: Website: www.marshallcarr.com Email: marshall@marshallcarr.com Twitter: @darthpops Nick: Website: www.brightinks.org Email: nicholasbright@brightinks.org Twitter: @BrightInks Wil: Email: wil@justkeepwriting.org Instagram: @wilsartrules Brent: Twitter: @BrentCLambert www.brentclambert.com LP: Email: lpkindred@wandering.shop Twitter: @LPKindred Linktr.ee/lpkindred Jenna Hanchey www.jennahanchey.com/ Sameem Siddiqui Twitter Website Shingai Njeri Kagunda Twitter Instagram Voodoonauts Gabriel F. Salmerón Twitter Instagram Now, just keep writing!

People in this episode

Hosts: Marshall, Nick, Brent, Wil

Topics covered

• writing
• creativity
• idea generation

Keywords

• The Story Engine
• writing process
• playfulness in writing

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Story Engine Support the Show, The Story Engine

Books & works: Engineering Ideas: Allowing Yourself to Play

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