Motanov Motanul Mov is an imagination trainer on Facebook, gives feedback to short stories writers on the magazine’s website and writes our newsletter. In the past, he used to select stories from readers for Revista de Povestiri, gave prompts for stories at our launching events, made many friends and traveled to Mongolia and Tanzania.

Unfortunately, as he violated Facebook policy by being imaginary, his profile was turned into a page and all comments – responses to his prompts – deleted. Luckily, we already had published some of the imagination trainings and the stories written by his friends in response, on this page.

In January 2014, he invented Academia Motanov, taking as a model the imaginary academy he went to as a kitten.

Living in the magazine

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Motanov’s birthday parties and special soirees

1st aniversary

Harvey, the pukka

Imagination training: invent an imaginary friend for the person next to you

drinking rubby bubble

2nd birthday, at at the astronomy institute

Motanov and friends

Painting by Mihaela Laslo

In various settings

Travelling abroad

At Pere Lachaise cemetery

Wth Daciotii team preparing for mongol rally

At the mongol border with Daciotii

Motanov in the car with Daciotii

In Turkmenistan with Daciotii

Having fun in Russia with Daciotii and fluffy friends

With/on alpinist Vasile Cipcigan

With Vasile Cipcigan on the way to Kilimanjaro

With 7 Pasi pe acoperisul lumii team

Stimulating imagination with prompts

Imagination trainings published in Revista de Povestiri

Describing a character by his shopping list> imagination trainings published in Revista de Povestiri

Imagination trainings published in Revista de Povestiri

Inventing pseudomathematical problems>Imagination trainings published in Revista de Povestiri

Imagination trainings published in Revista de Povestiri

Imagination trainings published in Revista de Povestiri

Imagination trainings published in Revista de Povestiri

What would be unsual to see when a curtain drops>Imagination trainings published in Revista de Povestiri

Imagination trainings published in Revista de Povestiri

Write the text in the bubbles to make a comic strip at Animest festival

Imagination training> write a fictional account of Innersound Festival

Imagination training> write a fictional account of Innersound Festival

Imagination training at Revista de Povestiri launch

Guess your future with 5 random words in the dictionary

Imagination training at Revista de Povestiri launch

Imagination training in short stories handmade magazine at Bestfest

Imagination training in short stories handmade magazine at Bestfest

Imagination training in short stories handmade magazine at Bestfest

Imagination training in short stories handmade magazine at Bestfest

Imagination training at Revista de Povestiri launch

Imagination training at Revista de Povestiri launch in Iasi

Imagination training at Revista de Povestiri launch

Imagination training at Revista de Povestiri launch

Catching stories written on the spot – imagination trainings

If a purple box existed in an airplane what kind of conversations would it record

Imagination training – what if you spent new years’s eve with…

Story in which to include 3 titles from the magazine issue

The story of a circle

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