Write an opinionated letter, as if to your local newspaper, regarding the issue of annual award shows being cancelled because of the writers’ strike. 

Or is it all just political hype? 

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Set your timer for 20 minutes, write the title at the top of the page, and see where your creativity takes the theme - if you can, try to stop yourself editing as you type, just let your fingers fly at the speed of your imagination:

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Write an account of your morning routine as if it were a scene in a novel.  Focus not only on the things that you do, but how the words you use describing these things help the reader see mornings through your eyes.

Use any of the following to begin a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

1. Right now, I feel that 2008 is going to be a year of ………
2. Gemma watched the group of people across the hallway as they ……..
3. The giraffe ran gracefully across the ………

Write an opinion piece about how effective driving laws are with regard to alcohol. 

What is the one main thing that you would like to see accomplished, resolved, or acquired during 2008?  Why is this important to you.  This could be something personal, or something that affects other people.

Happy New Year everyone.  Today set your timers for 20 minutes, type the title at the top of your page and then let your creativity take it where it wants until the timer buzzer sounds.

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