Replay: Story Jam #1 - Travelling Characters (July 2024)

For this session, we’ll dive into the world your characters live in by exploring journeys, vehicles, and adventures

How would your character choose to travel?
Does their vehicle have wings or wheels?
Do they have a travel buddy?

What is Story Jam?

Each Story Jam is a mix of quick-fire prompts and space to develop ideas, not about creating polished work, but about showing up and seeing what your brain produces when the pressure’s off. You don’t need a perfect idea, you just need to show up and play.

This session was a joyful experiment and the very beginning of something that’s now been running for over a year! And if you’ve never joined in, this replay is a great one to start with.

What’s in the Travelling Characters session?

This replay features warm-up exercises and a longer development prompt, all themed around movement and transport a brilliant starting point for stories and the world the characters are in.

We explore:

• Unusual ways to travel

• Characters in motion

• Companions, passengers, and story vehicles

• Unexpected journeys and destinations

Replay + all the prompts below, available to paid subscribers!

I’ll be adding a library of replays to Waffles with Jam