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how a character thinks and feels about something
Point of view is how a character thinks and feels about anything—a person, a place, a thing, a circumstance—anything. It’s a perspective that informs what a person initiates and how they respond.
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Place your closed fist in your lap with the back of the fist facing down. Focus on your fist and uncurl it as slowly as possible until it is fully open Repeat with the other hand.
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Player B makes an offer. Player A responds with a single sentence, then waits for Player B to respond to that. This pattern continues through the whole scene.
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Paired players face each other. One is the leader, the other the follower. The follower reflects the moves of the leader. After a while, they switch who leads and who follows.
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Say a random word. Then say a second word that is associated with the first word. Then say a word associated with the second word. Continue generating associated words for one minute. Track how many words (or phrases) are generated in one minute.
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The Gimme Getter is a mobile training app that delivers random suggestions, tracks time, and counts repetitions. It can even serve as a virtual partner when you’re training by yourself.
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Player A begins a scene with a given premise that is unknown to Player B. Player B signals when think they know what the premise is.
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Two lines of players face each other, each person’s partner being the person directly opposite. One partner endows the other from a list of spect endowments, then the other endows the first from their own list. Then each moves to their respective right and repeats the process with a new endowment.
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reveal a point of view that contradicts one previously established
Humans are complicated. The attitudes and perspectives that we share with others are not always the truth. We present manufactured versions of ourselves for all manner of reasons: social propriety, fitting in, avoiding controversy, deceiving an enemy. Drop the mask is a tool that takes advantage of this behavior, allowing you to change the apparent perspective of your character when needed. Here are the steps:
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