1-MINUTE PROMPT:
Pause. Listen to your surroundings. Hone in on one sound. Try to capture its quality and rhythm using phonetic spelling and descriptive language.
5-MINUTE PROMPT:
Listen. What do you hear? Pick one sound and imagine it’s the very last time that sound will be heard on planet Earth. Write a goodbye to this sound in the form of an obituary.
10-MINUTE PROMPT:
Make noises. With a pen. With your phone. With your hands. Scratch, bonk, tap, clap. Create a dictionary of sounds you can manufacture right now. Do your best to describe them phonetically. Feel free to make up words.
20-MINUTE PROMPT:
Quickly jot down a list of sounds you can hear in your environment. Then write a short movie script about two characters who fall in love, even though they can only speak to each other with these sounds. Does this romance end tragically or can it endure?