1-MINUTE PROMPT:
Congrats! You won a Webby Award for “excellence on the Internet.” Remember something you once did online (even if it’s as simple as composing a particularly eloquent email), and pretend you’re being honored for that. Turns out that Webby acceptance speeches are notoriously short at five words a pop. What will your five words be?
5-MINUTE PROMPT:
What details do you know about your own birth? Take whatever they are and use them in a story about a child’s arrival from the location of a zero-gravity rocket ship.
10-MINUTE PROMPT:
Let’s be real: words hurt just as much as sticks and stones—sometimes even more. Think of a letter, email, text, or verbal takedown you once received that gutted you. Imagine what you wish the person addressing you would’ve said instead. How would that re-envisioning make what came next different?
20-MINUTE PROMPT:
Abracadabra! Imagine you’re given the chance to rewrite one event from history. What would you change if you had the chance? How would the world be different with your revisions?