Mention improv to a writer and chances are he’ll turn whiter than a whipped cream hat on a snowman. Most people who put pen to paper think of improv as something that can be carried off only by fearlessly funny comedians. Yet the definition of improvise is to “invent, compose or perform something extemporaneously.” What’s more improvisational than the act of creating stories?
Check out this list of exercises from www.writersdigest.com
1. Transformations
2. Half a Script
3. Four & 10
4. Scenes cut from a movie
5. Freeze Tag
6. First line, Last line
7. Remember
8. New Choice
9. Opposites in Peril
10. 60-Second Fairy Tales
