Friday, September 22, 2006

Lesson: Exercise 4 - Not Fiction

Take a few minutes and write down a list of specific things you do in play which are not directly related with the fiction or imagined parts of play.

Once you've done this, look over the list.

Did you include things like eating or setting up seating? Did you include things like stretching or laughing? Did you include "Out of Game" or "Out of Character" talking?

If you did, why did they qualify as part of play? If you didn't, did you exclude it because it was too directly related to the fiction?

How much of what you listed could be directly related to the fiction? How much of it could not conceivably directly relate to fiction?

It useful to have ways to communicate that reliably don't affect the fiction. Which of the things you listed could be used to do that?

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