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Exercises
Players mingle and find a partner. Player A tells Player B how to respond—either by accepting, blocking, following, resisting, building, or amplifying. Then Player A makes an offer and Player B responds as instructed. The players trade roles and the process is repeated. After that, the players go find new partners and repeat the process.
Exercises
Close your eyes and imagine a day in the life of your character. Then, write a first-person journal entry in your character’s personal journal or diary. In addition to writing about the events of the day, include your character’s hopes, fears, and feelings. Repeat the process once a day for a week.
Exercises
Pick five physical status behaviors. Shoot a two-minute dating profile video for a character, embodying the status behaviors.
Exercises
Take different emotional hits off a series of random offers. If practicing alone, use an online random sentence generator to create the initial offer.
Exercises
Put together an outfit that feels appropriate for a character you’re developing. Don’t limit yourself to clothes from your own wardrobe. Borrow items from friends and family; visit thrift shops. Take a picture of yourself as your character in the outfit.
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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.
Exercises
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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