thanks so much for letting me know, I've now re-uploaded the video and it should be there and work fine! Please let me know if you have any more problems - enjoy!
Bed and kettle will have to stay put, but a new pen is in the offing - chiefly for using at Zoomy workshops (like yours). I'm looking forward to using the word cricket, having found it a great exercise in your workshops (and one or two others).
Thank you for this, Tania. I like your playful approach to writing and I really enjoyed playing word cricket. I love cricket and as the season draws to and end it saddens me a liitle - I guess it's the loss of good weather too. However now I can play word cricket anytime - no rain stopped play! I wonder if we could use random word generators to come up with fresh lists of words to insert or simply pick ten randomly from a dictionary or any book?
I am so glad I could offer you some non-weather-dependent cricket! And yes, why not have a go with random word generators or a lovely old-fashioned dictionary? Try it and let us know... I think if someone else can pick words for you, it's a different experience, but I've not tried that myself. Happy writing, lovely to have you with us!
Thanks, Tania. I like the idea of getting someone else to pick the words for you. I'll see what I can do. 😀 persuade them to make a recording of them read at one minute intervals. :-
Word Cricket! My new fav thing. Never played it before, and the first intervention of PURPLE made me jump! 😅 My writing seemed fragmentary, but there’s a theme, a thread.
The moving the bed thing! I don’t think there’s scope, but I shall get the tape measure out. I used always to love moving furniture about. Strangely, this is the longest I’ve lived anywhere (11 years) and things are as they were. It’s a provocation and invitation! Thank you!
My pleasure! So glad you enjoyed your first taste of Word Cricket! And I'd love to hear if you do move any furniture - isn't it funny how we forget about how things might move, we get so settled in and forget that nothing's actually fixed and immovable. There's a metaphor in there somewhere :)
There is a metaphor! Couldn’t do the bedroom, but smashed up the living room! My husband is away so very interested in his noticing. I love it! Thank you 🙏
My flat is too teeny to rearrange the furniture in, so I wrote some words around the page in my notebook, in a square spiral, closing in on the blank space on the page, it felt really playful and looks good at the end. Felt inspiring and freeing too - I will be sure to rearrange my page again soon!
I love that you "rearranged the furniture" on your page since you couldn't do it at home - inspiring and freeing is what we're going for, looking forward to hearing more!
Just did the Word Cricket too and it was so much fun - it’s probably the third time I’ve done it and today it was a good warm-up exercise for the fun of playing; also a good challenge to try and make an ending of the story and I really appreciated how you reminded us that we had permission to play and that we may like to find a way to end the story - your encouragements are so helpful. Now I’m wondering if I can use some of this in a story-in-progress that also has a violin at the centre of it… 😊
Delighted to hear this too, Katie. And for for it with that story-in-progress, getting playful means taking risks, experimenting, trying different things and see what works for you to help you write the story you want to write!
I loved it! Took me back to a haunted Elizabethan manor house - once I'd discovered the little man with his spinning wheel synchronicity took over. I had to go back and deliberately excavate the words you gave as was all so meshed . Thank you for filling my morning with spinning men, flying witches, ghostly vapours and magic carpets.
Thank you Tania! 560 wonderful, wacky words! I'm a huge fan of word cricket from past courses/workshops I've done with you. It's so great for just getting out of your head and having fun. I definitely had a moment where I was just about to describe my object as purple - and then you said it! Ha! Looking forward to more 'Unbox Your Words' exercises!
I am so glad to hear that, Fran, love the sound of 560 wonderful and wacky words! I thought anybody who'd been on one of my workshops might like a little Word Cricket. And thank you for participating in my research project on whether the Word Cricket mind-meld works with a recording as it does live - good to hear that!
Delighted to hear that, Anna, it's fun isn't it! And thank you for contributing to my research on whether that same mind-meld might occur even through a recording of Word Cricket. I like the idea that it woke up your brain - you can always play it again whenever you need it with a different first line!
Thoroughly enjoyed my first Word Cricket! It’s amazing what comes out when you just let yourself write with a few little prompts! Thank you!
So glad to hear that, Christina, Word Cricket does work magic! We're going to be doing more of that in my next Zoom workshop, hope you can join us: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/taniahershman/1542741
Tania, I was hoping to play word cricket today (5/11) but regret to inform you that the video is not available. Please look into this. Thanks.
HI Terry,
thanks so much for letting me know, I've now re-uploaded the video and it should be there and work fine! Please let me know if you have any more problems - enjoy!
Best,
Tania
Bed and kettle will have to stay put, but a new pen is in the offing - chiefly for using at Zoomy workshops (like yours). I'm looking forward to using the word cricket, having found it a great exercise in your workshops (and one or two others).
Ooh, looking forward to hearing if the new pen shakes things up! Enjoy Word Cricket, Moira, lovely having you with us at Unbox Your Words :)
Thank you for this, Tania. I like your playful approach to writing and I really enjoyed playing word cricket. I love cricket and as the season draws to and end it saddens me a liitle - I guess it's the loss of good weather too. However now I can play word cricket anytime - no rain stopped play! I wonder if we could use random word generators to come up with fresh lists of words to insert or simply pick ten randomly from a dictionary or any book?
I am so glad I could offer you some non-weather-dependent cricket! And yes, why not have a go with random word generators or a lovely old-fashioned dictionary? Try it and let us know... I think if someone else can pick words for you, it's a different experience, but I've not tried that myself. Happy writing, lovely to have you with us!
Thanks, Tania. I like the idea of getting someone else to pick the words for you. I'll see what I can do. 😀 persuade them to make a recording of them read at one minute intervals. :-
Word Cricket! My new fav thing. Never played it before, and the first intervention of PURPLE made me jump! 😅 My writing seemed fragmentary, but there’s a theme, a thread.
The moving the bed thing! I don’t think there’s scope, but I shall get the tape measure out. I used always to love moving furniture about. Strangely, this is the longest I’ve lived anywhere (11 years) and things are as they were. It’s a provocation and invitation! Thank you!
My pleasure! So glad you enjoyed your first taste of Word Cricket! And I'd love to hear if you do move any furniture - isn't it funny how we forget about how things might move, we get so settled in and forget that nothing's actually fixed and immovable. There's a metaphor in there somewhere :)
There is a metaphor! Couldn’t do the bedroom, but smashed up the living room! My husband is away so very interested in his noticing. I love it! Thank you 🙏
My flat is too teeny to rearrange the furniture in, so I wrote some words around the page in my notebook, in a square spiral, closing in on the blank space on the page, it felt really playful and looks good at the end. Felt inspiring and freeing too - I will be sure to rearrange my page again soon!
I love that you "rearranged the furniture" on your page since you couldn't do it at home - inspiring and freeing is what we're going for, looking forward to hearing more!
Just did the Word Cricket too and it was so much fun - it’s probably the third time I’ve done it and today it was a good warm-up exercise for the fun of playing; also a good challenge to try and make an ending of the story and I really appreciated how you reminded us that we had permission to play and that we may like to find a way to end the story - your encouragements are so helpful. Now I’m wondering if I can use some of this in a story-in-progress that also has a violin at the centre of it… 😊
Delighted to hear this too, Katie. And for for it with that story-in-progress, getting playful means taking risks, experimenting, trying different things and see what works for you to help you write the story you want to write!
I loved it! Took me back to a haunted Elizabethan manor house - once I'd discovered the little man with his spinning wheel synchronicity took over. I had to go back and deliberately excavate the words you gave as was all so meshed . Thank you for filling my morning with spinning men, flying witches, ghostly vapours and magic carpets.
Delighted to hear that, Lucy - all that magic sounds quite wonderful!
Thank you Tania! 560 wonderful, wacky words! I'm a huge fan of word cricket from past courses/workshops I've done with you. It's so great for just getting out of your head and having fun. I definitely had a moment where I was just about to describe my object as purple - and then you said it! Ha! Looking forward to more 'Unbox Your Words' exercises!
I am so glad to hear that, Fran, love the sound of 560 wonderful and wacky words! I thought anybody who'd been on one of my workshops might like a little Word Cricket. And thank you for participating in my research project on whether the Word Cricket mind-meld works with a recording as it does live - good to hear that!
Delighted to hear that, Anna, it's fun isn't it! And thank you for contributing to my research on whether that same mind-meld might occur even through a recording of Word Cricket. I like the idea that it woke up your brain - you can always play it again whenever you need it with a different first line!