What is The Storymatic?
The Storymatic consists of 250 gold cards and 250 white cards. Each gold card contains a character trait or occupation. Each white card contains a situation or object. Wild Cards contain instructions about where and when your story takes place, and how it must be told.
The basics of The Storymatic could not be easier. First, draw two gold cards. Then combine the information on these two cards to create your main character. For example, if you draw "surgeon" and "amateur boxer," your character is a surgeon who is also a boxer.
Next, draw one or two white cards. Let the information on the cards lead you into a story. If, for example, your cards say "box of teeth" and "pair of pants that don't fit right," then perhaps after a night in the ring Dr. Boxer always scans the floor of the ring for the teeth of his opponents, but maybe Dr. Boxer has put on some extra weight due to his long days at the hospital, causing him to slow down in the ring, and then...
And that's all there is to it.
There are, however, two laws that must always be followed:
The Two Laws of The Storymatic
1. Your main character must change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story.
2. You cannot kill your main character.
There are literally trillions of stories in The Storymatic. That's a lot of stories, but there's one thing missing--a person like you to tell them.
"I teach at a high school Career Center. We bought copies of the Storymatic for every program in our Art & Humanities department (Performance Theater, Video Technology and Visual Communications). It is a ridiculously affordable price for such a valuable teaching (and creative thinking) tool."
Lisa Rader, School Name TK
Middlebury, Vermont