Can I Get Some Gets?

Tell me what to do. I am your blogmonkey.

In improv, we’ll often start a scene by asking for something from the audience.¹ Why? One reason is so they know we’re actually improvising, rather than working from a script or from pre-rehearsed bits. The better reason is to prompt our creativity, to push ourselves outside of our heads and our normal boxes.

This is basically what I did with Becky during our first Fourth Friday Challenge. That was successful enough that (1) we’re going to do it again, and (2) I want to widen it. This is where you, faithful reader, come in.

Either in the comments to this post or using the form on the About page, give me some writing prompts. It could a be question, a topic, a restriction — anything that I can use to mix things up a bit. I’ll toss these into my blogging ideas file and use them to fuel future posts. Sound good?

So, can I get…

¹ In techincal terms, it’s a called a “get,” which leads to fun sentences like, “What kind of get to you want to get?”

Comments

[Judd]

Whatcha playing lately?

[Rob Donoghue]

Public Transportation

[Peter Kelley]

It's a Dinner Party.

Paul Tevis, Howard Tayler (Schlock Mercenary) and Hugh Macleod (Gaping Void) have been invited. Add other characters as needed. What would be the conversation?

[Jon Edwards]

Kanban

[Wayne]

How do you use Agile with normalized SQL database design that use full relational integrity?

[Jon Edwards]

Kanban was the first thing to come to my mind (probably since I'm reading a book about it). Some other choices have popped into my mind:

Being late
Job interviewing

[Christina]

The Bible! Or something from it.

[Rebecca R]

You're busy busy busy and organizing your time... what do you do to recharge? Or do you even have times where you're just fed up with the list of things to be done?