pilosophos
artist born and raised on the internet
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I'm putting this here instead of Forum Games because the focus is on developing writing skills and literary quality than just slinging posts around. An Art Games subforum exists in the Art forum, but not so for the Writing. Mods, feel free to move it if that's not good enough.
Rules
Ash provides the next person to post in the thread, Bill, with three scenes, people, and/or objects to describe. Bill must write an analogy or metaphor for one of Ash's prompts, and write his own three prompts for the next person to post in the thread, thus continuing the chain. Expanding on the prompt with additional context is highly encouraged.
Bill may choose to answer just one of Ash's prompts, but may answer more if he wants.
This game was inspired by The 56 Worst Analogies from High School Papers (many of which are actually quite good), including such gems as "From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30." and "Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever."
Example
Suppose we have these three prompts:
Let's start!
To start, here's three prompts:
Rules
Ash provides the next person to post in the thread, Bill, with three scenes, people, and/or objects to describe. Bill must write an analogy or metaphor for one of Ash's prompts, and write his own three prompts for the next person to post in the thread, thus continuing the chain. Expanding on the prompt with additional context is highly encouraged.
Bill may choose to answer just one of Ash's prompts, but may answer more if he wants.
This game was inspired by The 56 Worst Analogies from High School Papers (many of which are actually quite good), including such gems as "From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30." and "Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever."
Example
Suppose we have these three prompts:
- Scene: A birthday party gone wrong
- Person: An indecisive customer at a coffee shop
- Object: A defective lamp
- With the only people showing up to Charlie's birthday party being Charlie's dog, a wandering fly attracted to the cake, and― of course― Charlie himself, his long-awaited day of celebration and presents turned out as disappointing as the time he traded his Medicham for a Gengar with an Everstone.
- When asked if she wanted what kind of milk she wanted in her coffee, Debbie, who hadn't so much as stepped foot in a coffee shop, just stood frozen in front of the barista. It was as if she had found herself in one of those dreams where you're giving a school presentation naked.
- The lamp flickered on, seemed to work for a few moments, and fizzled out like a YouTuber's career when their viewers have all grown up.
Let's start!
To start, here's three prompts:
- A heated Pokémon battle against a Ditto
- Someone pretending to be knowledgeable about computers
- A notebook filled with cryptic poems
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