1-MINUTE PROMPT:
Look at your hands. Notice the lines and wrinkles, the bony parts and the fleshy parts, perhaps even hardened calluses or missing fingers. Write a couple of detailed sentences that describe what you see.
5-MINUTE PROMPT:
Make a quick list of some of the ways you could use your hands right now. Then write about a romantic encounter between two characters that begins with one of them using their hands to do something mentioned on your list.
10-MINUTE PROMPT:
Love line or life line? Your character is a palm reader who’s researching the history of palmistry. Using your own palms as reference, write about the meaning of these various lines on your hands.
20-MINUTE PROMPT:
A private investigator shows up at your door asking to see your hands. According to him your hands hold the key to solving a mystery. Look at your hands and find something—a tattoo, cracked nail polish, a birthmark, anything—and make that a clue. Write the dialogue between you and the investigator as you discuss the case and how your hands might fit into it.