Quite by accident, I stumbled across the Improv Encycolpedia, “the largest collection of resources for improvisation theater on the web.” When the site says, “Here you will find tons of stuff related to improvisation theatre,” you’d better believe it.

I believe I found the site because a storytelling game came up in one of my Google alerts. That prompted me to search the site using the term “story.” I got 124 results — all sorts of interesting story-related games and prompts, such as Story Spine, Word at a Time Story, Story Story Die, Three Sentence Story, Word at a Time Story, Sung Story Die, Automatic Storytelling, Never-ending Story, and Object Narrative. Truly a superb collection.

Another story game/prompt idea comes from Family Tree Magazine: Memoir Mad LIbs, memory-jogging prompts “to start your memoirs.” Sample prompts:

1. I’ll never forget the time [person] misbehaved at [event] …
2. A(n) [adjective] thing that happened at [place] was …
3. Nobody ever talks about [person]’s …
4. I wish I could do [event] all over again …
5. [person] really surprised me when …
6. A favorite memory of [place] is …
7. [person] was so [adjective] when …
8. [person] made [event] memorable when …
9. I laughed so hard the time [person] …
10. One of my favorite childhood places was [place] because …
11. I felt [adjective] at [event] because …