Robert D. Reed Publishers News — Deal a Story
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Deal a Story, such a wonderful product, and we need your help getting the message out there! Creating such a unique product that does not fit in any standard category makes for a real marketing challenge. Our product, Deal a Story by Sue Viders, is a card game for writers. It is a great tool to overcome writer’s block, to stimulate ideas for stories, a way to jar the memory when writing one’s memoir, a fun game to play in improvisational groups, etc. Writing teachers and coaches would find this to be a gem of a find. Vendors at conference would have...
WHAT A DEAL on Deal a Story!
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I would love to see Deal a Story by Sue Viders at every writer's conference, every classroom where teachers teach creative writing, and every writing group, whether a small local group or a professional group of writers writing for the movies or television. To foster this goal, I have created four different packages with significant discounts for those individuals or groups who get together to order in bulk! Usually, it sells for $19.95 per deck of 101 cards with millions and millions of possible ideas, but now it is available in lots of five, ten, twenty-five, or forty (or of course...
Re-calculating “Deal a Story”
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How often have you missed a turn and the GPS said, “Re-calculating?” Obviously I heard this many times as the voice so clearly reverberates in my head. When it comes to knowing how many possible hands one can draw from Deal a Story by Sue Viders, is it really important? The only reason it is important for me to write about again is to be in integrity. After doing some re-calculating, Patrick Vennebush, author of Mathy Jokes 4 Mathy Folks wrote to me, “The downside is that it's significantly lower than the number I previously gave you. The upside is that it's still...
Five-Quadrillion Combinations with "Deal a Story"… or MORE!?!
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Our brainstorming card game, Deal a Story, by Sue Viders, boasts on the box top that there are 101 cards and 1,000,001 story ideas. But how many ideas really can come from this game? Even though I was really good at math and statistics when a student, over the years I have lost so much mathematical know-how. So I wrote to our author, Patrick Vennebush, who wrote Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks, (and has a blog of jokes and other fun math stuff) and asked him how many combinations were really possible with Deal a Story. A million and...
Deal a Story and GO WILD with ideas!
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When I play with the Deal a Story Brain-Storming Card Game by Sue Viders, I end up with a wide variety of emotions. Today, the first hand I drew made me literally laugh out loud! Another one made me totally puzzled. Another one had me intrigued. I think the reactions and feelings are as endless as the possible stories that can come out of using this game, or as we refer to it, this writer’s tool. (Here is a sample random draw:) The idea is to pick one of sixteen cards in each group: Hero, Heroine, Villain, Plot, and Genre; and...