"No you didn't!" - an exercise for creative ideas

I'm currently doing acting classes at the New Venture Theatre in Brighton, East Sussex and learning loads of interesting stuff.

One exercise we did last night was called "No you didn't!".

We were asked to get into pairs, then one person begins telling the other about what they did that day from the moment they woke up. The other person interrupts with "No you didn't!" as and when they want, and the first person then has to adapt their story or change its direction each time.

The first person can return to the original true thread of their story if they wish to or go off on wild flights of imagination and never return!

Most of the class found it very interesting and a great way to be spontaneous and stimulate the imagination. Most people also were surprised at how easily they could create very abstract, creative and colourful stories!

I'm sure it can be adapted to a number of different scenarios and be a valuable source of generating ideas and expanding your imagination.

I certainly intend to use and adapt it myself in the future.

Happy imagining!