Writing Promt: What If?

What if you could change your age by snapping your fingers? What age would you choose? What if you could only change your age three times?

Word of the Week: Assail

ASSAIL (uh SAYL)

• verb: to attack with vigor

We hid behind the garden fence and assailed passing cars with rotten apples.

Now write!

Use the word assail in a freewrite exercise. How many synonyms can you generate? How about antonyms?

Weekend Warm-Up

You wake up one morning and have suddenly lost your eyesight.

What happens that day?

How did you lose your sight?

Spit and Polish: Imagery

Authors rarely use the sense of taste in descriptions because we have such limited taste experience. Our tongues can only taste a limited range (sour, sweet, salty, bitter).

Describe the taste of a favorite food.

Now, think of something that you would not normally eat (and it doesn't have to be food). Describe the taste. (use your imagination, not your tongue)

Writing Prompt: Killer Quotation

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

• Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

What do you think Twain meant by this quotation?

Use the quote as a prompt for freewriting.

Writing Prompt: What If?

What if all electronic devices stopped working at the same time? What would happen?

Word of the Week: Bemoan

BEMOAN (bi MOAN)

• verb: to lament; to mourn about

While standing on the ledge outside his office window, the stock broker bemoaned his recent losses.

Now write!

Use the word bemoan in a freewrite exercise. How many synonyms can you generate? How about antonyms?