Alone

RECOMMENDED TIME: 10 minutes

Freewrite, any genre.

Spilt

RECOMMENDED TIME: 7 minutes

Begin with: "The rain came down and ruined what was left of the cake."

Chronology

RECOMMENDED TIME: 10 minutes

The thread that links your grandparents, to your parents, to yourself.

BOASAS 2

GENRE: fiction, nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 7 minutes

Freewrite to the BOASAS strip below. Click to enlarge.

Burn Up

GENRE: nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 6 minutes

Five things to throw in the fire.

Robot Wars

GENRE: fiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

The Robot War of '76.

Her Morning Elegance

GENRE: fiction, nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

Freewrite to "Her Morning Elegance" by Oren Lavie.

Juice Box

GENRE: fiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

He always had a juice box.

Color Test

GENRE: nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

Four colors that describe you.

The Orange

GENRE: fiction, nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

Freewrite after watching "The Orange" by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Nick Fox-Gieg below.

Perfumerie

GENRE: fiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

She smelled like an odd mix of....

How-To

GENRE: nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

Write a how-to in paragraph form -- meaning, no bulletpoints or numbered lists.

Origami

GENRE: fiction, nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 7 minutes

Freewrite to the photo below. From Flickr.

Trends I Hate

GENRE: nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 7 minutes

The 80's Revival.

Titles

GENRE: fiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 7 minutes

Chicken Soup for the Roadsign Thief's Soul.

A Softer World

GENRE: fiction, nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

Freewrite to this strip of A Softer World. Click to enlarge.

Hermitude

GENRE: fiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

You haven't left the house in twelve years.

Blood Vessels

GENRE: nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 5 minutes

If I travel my veins a la The Magic School Bus, zooming through arteries and flashing my red blood cells, how would I know me from anyone else?

American Girl

GENRE: fiction, nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 7 minutes

Freewrite to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "American Girl."

First and Last

GENRE: nonfiction
RECOMMENDED TIME: 7 minutes

Your very first memory. Is it related to what you hope will be your last memory?