Warmup #11
500 word challenge: Explain to a robot child where little robots and robettes come from.
Category Archives: Creating
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Posts on being creative, inventive, or just plain irritatin’.
Warmup #10
500 word challenge: Rewrite a song as a piece of prose (Ballads work well; Pop songs, not so well). Bonus points if someone else can recognize the song without you having to give it away.
Warmup #9
500 word challenge: Write a completely honest political speech.
Warmup #8
500 word challenge: Describe a mundane object as if you’ve never seen it before.
Warmup #7
250 word challenge: Walk out of your house, and start your personal jet pack. (It’s the future — where’s my jet pack?)
Warmup #6
250 word challenge: Describe your favorite piece of furniture from when you were a child. For bonus points, use the point of view of a child.
Warmup #5
250 word challenge: Write a conversation in which a student known to be lazy explains to his teacher why he (or she) didn’t do his homework. “My dog ate it” doesn’t suffice.
Warmup #4
250 word challenge: Write a looping piece. Think “There’s a Hole in the Bucket” or “Third Rock from the Sun” (I’ve never heard of it, either).
Warmup #3
250 word challenge: The punch line is: “The Aristocats!” (No, that’s not a typographical error.) Tell us the joke.
Warmup #2
250 word challenge: Anthropomorphize your writing implement. Tell about him writing what you’re writing.