Here are some notes on a great panel at Life the Universe and Everything SF/F symposium. The topic is storytelling and roleplaying for writing.

– Sometimes if you need to write a scene with sensory details that actually act out the situation. For example, if you need to know how it feels to walk out in the cold without a coat without shoes accede do it and observe the sensory details of the doubt in the snow and the transition of sensory details when you come back indoors.
– One author wrote a book about the gods of cool which some of the gods represented by God, a fashion got a vanity, etc. The concept got developed by role-playing with some friends.
– An author of romance in order for her to write realistic scenes of kissing will ask her husband that she wants a board in for a moment so that she can see how the placement of hands would be during the kids.
– Another idea is that outside of the character’s home. There is a murderer. Prior to the murder. The character. He is a unique whistle.
– The police knocked on the door and report the murder the kid has no idea who did it, but when they attend a bar. They hear the same whistle.
– If someone says something quirky that could be a source of the story.

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