1-MINUTE PROMPT:
What’s the last thing you drank? Write the lines of dialogue that a person rescued from the desert might say after taking a large gulp of whatever your most recent beverage was.
5-MINUTE PROMPT:
Food, glorious food! What’s the most delicious and/or satisfying thing that you’ve eaten in the past 24 hours? Use it as inspiration to craft some text for a children’s early reader book.
10-MINUTE PROMPT:
Everyone has a signature dish. Maybe yours is as straightforward as a tuna casserole or maybe it’s as complicated as a three-cheese lobster risotto garnished with chives and pea shoots. Think of a time when you made your signature dish. Use the experience to write a quietly dramatic scene with two characters who have reunited after a long period of estrangement.
20-MINUTE PROMPT:
Blech! As much as it pains you, cast your mind back to a time you unwittingly ate or drank something that tasted absolutely wretched. Write of your experience in the style of a podcast episode or radio news story. Is there a narrator? What interviews would be included? Consider that there might be a larger cultural or societal commentary of your distasteful food experience.