Think of your usual daily routine, write a list of the things you do in an "average" day. Then write an essay of your life, doing this routine, 50 years ago. How would it differ from today? Could you do as much? Or do you think you would have accomplished far more then?

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Start your page with any of the following and see what you make them into.

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Your protagonist is returning from a stressful New Year’s Eve at work, and as they drive home considers whether to go to a party as arranged that evening or not. At a red light, a driver in another car stops too late behind your protag and ends up bumping the back of his/her car. Both parties get out of their vehicles to survey the damage, at which point your protag realises the other driver has been drinking. Write the scene as it unfolds to you.

Write a photograph! Using powerful vocabulary that can invoke sharp images in the mind of the read, write a photograph describing your favourite place.

This morning, pick the first short (not more than 8-10 words) sentence in the first three paragraphs of any reading material close to hand. Use these three sentences, in any order, but they must be kept in tact, in a piece of fiction or non-fiction.

So as we start this first week in the new year, think ahead and write down a list of things you think you’d like to accomplish by 31st December 2005. Which of these are the most important to you, write down why these are the most important to you, and then think about the steps you need to take to work towards achieving them.