Writing Warm Ups II

• Give detailed directions for doing something simple like preparing cereal or getting dressed. Pretend that the person using your directions doesn't know what things are callled. Try to make it funny!
• Invent a product that is made using old or discarded objects in a new way; paper clips, old nylons, egg cartons, aluminum cans, ??
• Show, Don't Tell:
• The dentist is no fun!
• A person blowing up a balloon.
• The perfect school.
• Hanging out is harder than you think!
• "Free but Focused": Write as fast and furiously as you can for 10 minutes, but this time stick broadly to a subject. Begin with one of these or begin with your own, but try to at least marginally stay with the subject:
• At first, I wasn't worried...
• ________ is one of a kind.
• I wish I were there now.
• Did you see that?
• Expand and Show:
• Then he went tearing around the house again. (8 words; try to expand to 15+)
• A faint wind moaned through the trees. (7 --> 22+)
• Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves. (6 --> 24+)
• Now a weird flash turned night into day. (8 --> 22+)
• Types of CAP writing:
• report of information
• autobiographical essay
• persuasive
• observation
• reponse to literature
• problem solution
• Starters:
• You have a month (a week, a day)  to live. Show what you would do.
• If you could invite 2-3 figures from history to dinner, whom would they be? Show the dinner, especially the conversation. (Example: Hitler, Jesus, Albert Einstein.)
• Make a list of questions you would use to interview a space alien.
• favorite, chewy, birthday