Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into the imagination with tips, techniques and tools you can use to write suspensefulcreature fiction. Anna uses the surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse to generate short story ideas. The results are imagination-bending and a real workout for your creative writing.

It’s the ultimate writing prompt challenge. Your weekend is not weird enough (or creative enough) without Brainstoryum!

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INTRO: Hello imaginative people! I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 85 of Brainstoryum.

I have a bumper show for you today (as I’m recording the introduction last this time). The ExCos turn out even crazier than usual today, so expect some laughs, yet despite this, I find myself setting what might well be called a ludicrous writing prompt challenge, which turns out pretty well, I reckon. So while this will be a slightly longer episode than usual, please do listen on, and join me in this bizarre journey into writing craft – and hopefully a glimpse into a little bitof my slowly building collection...