The situation:  A woman walks along a beach at night.

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Use the following set of words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction.  Word order doesn’t matter, nor does the word count.  The only rule is to include them all in the format they are given.

• Assassinate
  
• Devise
  
• Frivolous

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Set your timer for 15 minutes, type the title at the top of the page, and then see where it takes you.

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What kind of a neighbor are you?  Are you the person who helps organize anything that needs organzing?  Are you the person the neighborhood can rely on in an emergency?  Are you the cat lady?  The car speed freak?  Or will you confess to being the drape twitching local busy-body?  Write a journal entry about your place in the neighborhood.

Use any of the following as the opening words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

1. Sophie shook the ………
2. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.  Hunting for their perfect house was supposed to ………
3. As the children rounded the side of the ………

Write a piece of fiction or (or change it slightly to make sense in a non-fiction context) that leads to the following ending:

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Use all of the following words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

• Ambition
• Chart
• Eyelash
• Glitter
• Helmet
• Idiot
• Plastic
• Stride
• Turquoise
• Wave

Set your timer for 20 minutes, write the title at the top of your page, and then see where your creativity takes you.

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Choose an issue you have a stong opinion about - and then write an essay in support of the OPPOSING viewpoint!

Use any of the following story seeds in a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

1. Carla hoisted the heavy ………
2. Blueberry yoghurt slid unapologetically off the spoon and down the front of ……..
3. The waves smoothed out the sand leaving little more than a shadow of where the ………