1-MINUTE PROMPT:
Panic is a terrible feeling. Using a memory of a time that you panicked, craft the slogan for a bus advertisement aiming to calm people found in that exact scenario.
5-MINUTE PROMPT:
Think of a time you panicked. What if, unbeknownst to you, behavioral scientists were studying you? What did your panic look like from the outside? Write up an observation report about your panicky behavior from the point of view of the scientists.
10-MINUTE PROMPT:
After a bout of panic, there’s a period of relief. Write about what it’s like to experience that relief in your heart, mind, body, and soul after something utterly freaks you out. How does everything return to normal again?
20-MINUTE PROMPT:
Think of a time when you panicked in the presence of another person. Write out this scene as though it takes place in a different historical time period. (Choose a decade that’s at least fifty years in the past.) What about that historic time period would change the details of your panicky situation?