Plot Thickener is a deck of 60 cards in a pocket sized box, with which you can:
- Play 2 card games (or make up your own game)
- Write a great story from 110 stimulating writing prompts
- Teach a young writer how to write fiction
- Try some suggestions for making your own life more interesting
- Add a lot of fun to a party!
Plot Thickener was inspired in 2020 by the unbearably thin plot of life in lockdown juxtaposed with the ever-thickening plot of the COVID-19 pandemic in the outside world. A little idea sparked and Wendy began to contemplate all the best stories she had ever read in books or seen on screen. After compiling an exhaustive list of hundreds of ways stories suddenly become more interesting she wondered if a person could take these plot thickening elements and apply them purposefully to life, fiction or fun to make them more literarily satisfying. With this in mind she developed 5 categories of plot thickeners: Twists, Placey Places, Curious Objects, Situators and Characters. Plot Thickener can be used as a deck of writing prompts, a fun group game or a way to make your own life more interesting.
One great characteristic of Plot Thickener that sets it apart from other writing prompt card decks is that the plot thickeners are intentionally non-specific enough for the player to have a lot of room for creative interpretation. For example, the Curious Objects card “Tool” could be interpreted as a magic screwdriver, a wizard’s staff, a golden lasso, a hammer from the junk drawer or any tool you imagine. The Placey Place card “Neither Here Nor There” could be interpreted as a road between towns, a jetway between the airport concourse and an airplane, a wood between the worlds, etc. It is your story. You get to decide.
It is the PERFECT GIFT for:
- a writer
- an English teacher
- a book lover
- a gamer
- a graduate
- a book club
- a bored teenager
- a homeschool student
Family friendly and fun for all ages! (nothing inappropriate for young people, no foul language or crude references).
Box Dimensions: 3 3/4″ x 2 1/2″ (9.5cm x 6cm)
Card Dimensions: Bridge Size 3.43″ x 2.2″ (8.7cm x 5.6cm)
“Play it, write it or live it. It is entirely up to you.”
