1. The night air was chilly against the bare skin of ………

2. A full moon at Halloween stamped nature’s approval on the ………

3. The siren cut through the silent suburb like a ………

Write a character biography for a protagonist called Mildred, and an antagonist named Zip. They don’t have to belong in the same story so don’t contrive a bio based on how you would bring these two people together. Instead, let them speak to you and tell you who they are. It could be that from their bio a storyline emerges to you once the bios are made. Write the bios in first person so that the characters tell you their story.

What are the "must haves" that you can’t leave home without? Make a list of everything that you have to have before you can leave the house, ie keys, tissues, lipstick, wallet….. and then write a small journal entry/flash fiction about something that happens (fiction - unless this has actually happened to you) when you leave one of these items at home.

10 words, let’s go a bit further with the exercise this week. Use them all in one paragraph - and no folks, that isn’t an unformatted essay/short story! That’s a paragraph!

Caution
Sparkle
Trench
Golden
Crisp
Beamed
Plastic
Liquid
Height
Wobble

Which song or songs move you the most? Why is it they affect you in this way?

Start your fiction, or even non-fiction with any of the following and then see where you can take it.

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Turn off your internal editor, write the title "Romantic Escape" at the top of your page, and then start writing and see how many words you get before you run out of steam. Don’t think, just write.

The season is changing, depending which hemisphere you’re in the weather could be improving, or becoming colder. What are you looking forward to the most in the new season? Write an essay entitled "In With The New".

Write whatever you feel like this morning, as long as it contains the words in the list. Maybe you want to start off with an idea, and weave the words into it, or maybe you prefer to read the words and then weave a story around them. The choice is yours.

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This morning, without looking, describe the floor areas in your home. What do they look like? What’s on them? How do you clean them? Are they the way you want them? How would you change them.