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10 November 2026

Posted by Harley Truslove

Fliers & Fanmail

Due to termtime mixups it was a rather small group (of one) so we didn’t focus on our radio play and did some writing games instead (though we did fill in an SFX prompt sheet where the main character had to explain themselves along with sound effects, something which we will be exploring more thoroughly with all of our group next week).


We did a round of word + question, creating a no-more-than-8-line poem which used the prompted word and answered the given question (I, for example, was given the word “word” and the question “can I ask a question?”). We then moved onto a “power of three” task, looking around the room to find three items for inspiration for a short story. The fact that we were in a side room full of props was quite helpful!


To end the evening, Ali grabbed us some show fliers from the bar area and had us write a letter to a celebrity of our choice using only the words in those fliers. Jacob was our writer of the week, but not just because he was the only participant… he deserved that merit after his letter using only Queen and ELO cover band related words!

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