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Tag Archives: Over-Originality

Game Library: “What Happens Next?”

What Happens Next in the ImprovDr Game Library…?

Posted byimprovdrNovember 17, 2025December 6, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Action, Connections, Exercises, Narrative, Obvious, Options, Over-Originality, Small Steps, Specificity, Story, What Happens NextLeave a comment on Game Library: “What Happens Next?”

Game Library: “Incomplete Sentences”

In this game, other characters have to finish your…

Posted byimprovdrJune 14, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Characterization, Incomplete Sentences, Justification, Language Skills, Over-Originality, Short-Form, Third Thought, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Incomplete Sentences”

“T” is for “Third Thought”

Three thoughts on when a “Third Thought” might be just what you’re looking for.

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 23, 2023October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Creativity, Discovery, Obvious, Over-Originality, Spontaneity, T is for, Third ThoughtLeave a comment on “T” is for “Third Thought”

Game Library: “Hesitation Speech”

A fun way to combine a little randomness with the high stakes of a public speech or event….

Posted byimprovdrApril 15, 2022May 17, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Hesitation Speech, Justification, Over-Originality, Randomness, Shivving, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Hesitation Speech”

“O” is for “Over-Originality”

On the improvisation penchant for over-originality…

Posted byimprovdrApril 11, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Cleverness, Curve Ball, Fear, O is, Obvious, Over-Originality, Presence, Randomness, Trying, YouLeave a comment on “O” is for “Over-Originality”

“C” is for “Cleverness”

What’s the difference between informed choices and being clever? Consider “C” is for “Cleverness.”

Posted byimprovdrMarch 8, 2021October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:C is for, Cleverness, Gagging, Jokes, Obvious, Over-OriginalityLeave a comment on “C” is for “Cleverness”

Commandment #9

The ninth Commandment invites us to embrace our own innate brilliance.

Posted byimprovdrAugust 24, 2020October 21, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Cleverness, Commandments, Gagging, Honesty, Masks, Obvious, Over-Originality, Trying, YouLeave a comment on Commandment #9
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