Storymatic Synapsis – Creative Writing Prompts for Adults and Young Writers – Storytelling Game
$25.95
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Product Description
Experiment with fantasy, YA, thriller, romance, graphic novel, and more. You might be surprised how quickly ideas, characters, settings, and plots take shape in your mind.
Get ready, because your sentences are about to get wild. Quickly make vivid similes and metaphors, explore synesthesia, and let your words become worlds. Great teacher gift!
Come at a story from different directions. Who says you have to start at the beginning? A unique brainstorming tool and story starter, and a fun gift for writers and authors.
Synapsis is an improv prompt for writers. Say yes to ideas, language, conversation, and stories. A great addition to writing toolkits, teacher toolboxes, and family game night!
Synapsis is a writing and storytelling prompt where you don’t start at the beginning; instead, you jump from one story element to another and find the story that way. A playful gift for young writers and experienced writers alike, and a super-flexible gift for teachers.
There are 250 storytelling cards across four decks: 30 Spark cards that help shape a sentence you write, and 140 Riff and 30 Connect cards that get you playing with language, images, senses, and ideas, and 50 Ask cards that exercise your storytelling imagination. Write the sentence, answer the questions, find the story. A fold-out guide with writing games and creative writing activities is included.
Improv’s Golden Rule is “Say Yes,” which means accepting the premise of a scene and playing with it. In Synapsis, it means giving yourself permission to play with language, play with how you answer questions about your story-in-the-making, and play with your imagination.
Synapsis is designed by an experienced writer and teacher to help with similes and metaphors, and to promote thinking, conversation, creative brainstorming, and collaborative storytelling. For writers and writing coaches, teachers, and all the creative (and wanna-be-creative) people in your life.
Want to work up to Synapsis? Try Storymatic Classic, Storymatic Kids, or Rememory. Made in USA.
Hi! My name is Brian Mooney, and I made the first Storymatic for my college and high school writing classes. For a long time my students asked me to make more than one Storymatic, because they wanted to use it outside of class with their friends and families. After a few years of listening, I took their excellent advice.
Pretty soon after that, parents and teachers started asking me to make a kids version—also excellent advice! Not long after that, my poetry students asked when I would make a version about memory. Excellent advice yet again! Then they asked about a Storymatic that combined a random-sentence generator with our synesthesia and improv prompts. More good advice! Reach for Synapsis when you’re ready for a new creative adventure. Happy Storytelling!
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Number of Cards
540 360 (includes 20 blanks so you can make up your own cards) 230 250
Ideal for…
storytelling, fiction, plays, screenplays , non- competitive games storytelling, fiction, plays, screenplays , non- competitive games memory- based storytelling, memoir, journaling, poetry, conversation , non- competitive games storytelling, sentence- building, figurative language, fiction, conversation , non- competitive games
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Age Range?
12 and up 5 and up 13 and up 10 and up
Grade level?
8th grade through grad school Grade 3 or 4 and up. Excellent for English Language Learners 9th grade through grad school 5th grade through grad school
Writing Meets Improv: Level up your storytelling with these writing prompts for adults and young writers; These 250 story cards spark conversations and spontaneous leaps of imagination; A writing game that can help with writer’s block; Ages 10+
How to Play: First you’re prompted to write a pretty strange sentence; Then you answer questions that help you create a story from that sentence; Synapsis is a unique brainstorming tool and story starter, and a fun gift for writers and authors
Ready for a Creative Challenge?: Jumpstart your brain, play with language, dive into genres, and quickly invent characters, scenes, settings, plots, and motivations; Go solo or play in a group (2-6 people); Great gift for teachers and students
Story Game for Writers: And teachers, students, aspiring novelists, poets, storytellers, improv clubs, families, therapists, and anyone open to exploring language and stories; Add it to your teacher toolbox; Make stories together at game night
Inspire Storytelling: The Storymatic Synapsis offers creative writing prompts and games designed to encourage storytelling and improvisational thinking; Made in the USA
Customers say
Customers find the game fun, with one mentioning it brings lots of laughs with family and friends. Moreover, they appreciate it as a vocabulary builder and creative writing tool, with one customer noting it helps get them unstuck on hard writing days. Additionally, the game serves as a great story-making device.
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