Flash Fiction -- Collaborative Foundations on a Wednesday Evening

Collaborative Foundations
A more directed version of Flash Fiction

At the beginning of the event, I will ask people to contribute to a list of some foundations elements of storytelling, things like:

-- an emotion (joy, jealousy, anger, etc.)
-- a relationship between two people (friends, lovers, boss/underling)
-- an event (a missed connection, 5-alarm fire, happy occasion, death)

Then, for each round,

I spin a wheel which will determine which of the foundational elements that people contributed we will use during the round

Then I share an interesting random picture from the internet.

We each spend the next 5 minutes writing a story based on THAT picture, but also INCORPORATING the foundational elements that came up from the spinning wheel

Share back our stories to the group (if you want to)

The inspiration for each person's story is the same picture and the same foundational elements. It will be really interesting to see where each person takes it. What magical, marvelous stories can be built using the same foundation?

As in all of my Spontaneous Creativity events, the goal isn't the end-result story, but instead the process of being creative with a group of like-minded, supportive, non-judgmental people.