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Rearrange and Restructure

Maybe you have everything in the wrong order. What if you put the last thing first? Move the middle to the end? Whatever you do, don’t start at the beginning.

Pretend you’re Quentin Tarantino. In his movie Pulp Fiction, instead of showing the story in a linear form, he uses a circular structure: the beginning of the movie is actually the end chronologically, the middle of the movie is the beginning, and the end picks up again at the beginning. Got it?

Find two or three friends and try playing the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse. Fold a piece of paper in thirds, and take turns drawing part of a character without looking at what’s been drawn before.

What else could it be?