What is your favorite flower?
Why?
Make your case to someone who likes a completely different type of flower. Use all senses but smell.

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Favorite guilty pleasure magazine? Where and when do you indulge?

1) Tell the story in 3rd person point of view.
2) Next, tell it from 2nd person point of view, as if you (the “I”), are enjoying a voyeuristic pleasure.

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Start:
“The inside of my hand smelled like ink.”

What happened? List the possibilities.

End:
“… white smoke.”

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What was the hardest thing you had to do and why did you do it?
I know, it’s a big question. But these things change us and it’s good to remember them. Answer in ten words exactly.

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We think there should be a bootcamp one can attend to learn courtesy and kindness. While you may think such a set-up would be highly oxymoronic, it can work. Make it so.

Here are some things to ponder:

Where does it take place?
Who runs it? What are the individuals’ roles (ranks)?
What is the schedule? How long does it run?
What are the rewards for completion of tasks?
How is discipline handled? What consequences do you face for infractions or failures?
What are the rules for acceptance to bootcamp, and for expulsion and potential readmission? Do you graduate? What are the final projects to determine your rank and status? What are the guidelines for retention?

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There is no phone service where you are. You believe in telepathy. Who do you call and for what purpose?

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This Sunday, 10-3 Doubletree Hotel!
Route 29 North, up by Sams.

Mash-up: Two American Greats.

If Edgar Allan Poe’s mystery writing style was mixed with Raymond Chandler’s, what would that hybrid style look like?

(If Chandler doesn’t work for you, pick another, even a British author. Mash-ups are mash-ups.)

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Let this photo inspire you to write something great.

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Start here:
Once upon a time there was a morning that didn’t begin like any of the mornings that had come before it….

End here:
And that was the path that actually had been most traveled until the invention of the steam engine.

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