Story Spinner

Story Spinner is a handheld creative writing wheel that generates millions of writing ideas, topics, and exercises so you never get stuck. It’s a low-tech item that produces high-caliber results, time after time, no matter where you are. It was invented in 1998 by Bonnie Neubauer.

Story Spinner is perfect for:

• Teachers: An instant creative writing lesson plan! ( 13 Lesson Plan Ideas for All Ages Using Story Spinner)
• Writers, Artists, Actors: Never be blocked again!
• Parents: Encourage your kids' creativity!
• Students: Finally, help with writing assignments!!!
• Gifts: For that creative person in your life...or yourself!!!

Try the Story Spinner Online with gazillions more starters, settings and words!

Here’s a genuine TRY BEFORE YOU BUY experience, three free exercises generated by Story Spinner.

This is the front/pinwheel side of Story Spinner. All you do is turn each of the three wheels to reveal the ingredients for your story in the die-cut rectangles.

Here’s one for you to try now:

1. The purple wheel gives you a phrase to start your story. Yours is: "The day I disappeared"
2. The black wheel gives you a setting to locate your story. Yours is: "in a blizzard"
3. The red wheel gives you a word you must include in your story. Yours is: "Cork"
4. Now, set a timer for 10 minutes, start with "The day I disappeared" and write, draw, act or tell your story. Don't forget to set it “in a blizzard” and use the word "cork"!
5. You'll be amazed at the results.

This is the back/recipe side of Story Spinner offering 18 different writing exercise formulas called Recipes. The recipe directions appear in the trapezoid. Once you dial up your recipe and read the directions, flip over Story Spinner to the pinwheel side to gather your ingredients.

The recipe you just tried is called Meat and Potatoes because it uses the basic Story Spinner formula of one ingredient from each wheel.

If you’d like to buy your very own Story Spinner (just $9.99 plus s/h) so you can have these fun creative writing exercises wherever you go, click here to BUY/ORDER.

Here’s another recipe/exercise for you to try before you buy. This one is called Bunch of Baloney:
Create a story about a lie you once told (or someone told you) using the following ingredients:

• 1 Starter: Your starting phrase is, "I wished upon the star..."
• 1 Setting: Your story should take place “at the beach"
• 2 Words: You must use the words SOAP OPERA and HOCKEY PUCK in your story.
• Now set a timer for 10 minutes and write, draw, act or tell your story. Don't forget to write about a lie, have a beach as your setting, include the words 'soap opera' and 'hockey puck' and begin the story with the phrase, "I wished upon the star..."
  

Lots of great things in life come in threes. This page is no exception. Here’s a third Story Spinner exercise for you to try:

It’s called Slower Than Molasses: Use one starter and write/draw using your least dominant hand for three minutes. Your starting phrase is: On my 100th Birthday… Set a timer and begin… this one is a bit more challenging than it seems!

Some other exercises you’ll enjoy when you buy your own Story Spinner ($9.99 plus s/h) are:

Try the online version of story spinner with gazillions more starters, settings and words!

Just think… if you do one exercise a day...every day... for 10 minutes... by the end of the year...you'll have filled 365 pages... that's longer than most best-sellers!!

The best way to keep your creative momentum going is to write every day. Here are some tips to help you:

• Don't worry about what you write. Just write.
• Write freely. Write for fun. Let yourself write junk.
• Complain for a page if you like.
• Don't look back at what you've written.
• If you get stuck keep writing the same word over and over, knowing that more words will come.
• Don't edit.
• Don't critique, judge, offer disclaimers or belittle what you've written.
• Use lots of descriptive examples.
• Write about childhood memories.
• Use your senses – all of them!
• Let the momentum flow from the pen onto the paper. Keep it going! Because the MORE YOU WRITE, THE BETTER YOU WRITE!

If you like Story Spinner, you'll also want to click on these pages at www.BonnieNeubauer.com:

• Write-Brain Workbook: 366 exercises to liberate your writing – FREE sample pages from the book by Bonnie Neubauer plus links to BUY your own copy.
• Story Spinner Online: It's the handheld Story Spinner on steroids with combinations that generate gazillions of creative writing exercises.
• Solidare: The ultimate solitaire challenge for word game lovers
• Order/Buy: Get your very own Story Spinner so you can have creative writing exercises wherever you go.

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