1-MINUTE PROMPT:
Have you ever been so tired that your tiredness was tired? Think of an occasion where you were so tired that you felt like the living dead. Write about the physical experience of deep exhaustion. Where in your body did you feel it?
5-MINUTE PROMPT:
Once upon a time there was a project you thought was dead, but—lo and behold!—it came back to life. Imagine that this revived project played an instrumental part in national security. Write about it from the point of view of an agent with the National Security Agency (NSA).
10-MINUTE PROMPT:
You know that thing where you’re just getting over your ex, and then they start coming around again? Recall a time when a romance you thought was dead wasn’t. Dramatize your experience and write it as a climactic scene in a timeless romance story.
20-MINUTE PROMPT:
When a beloved movie, book, TV, or stage character dies we sometimes feel actual sadness, even though we know we’re dealing with a fictitious person. What character’s death affected you? Imagine that character coming back—as a zombie. What now?