Writing Prompts
1.
You are in a room with no
distractions. The door is locked, the walls are white. There is one chair on
which you sit. On the table in front of you is a piece of paper. You know on
the reverse side of the paper is written the date you will eventually die. You
are in the room for one hour only and can never return to it. Tell me if you
would turn the paper over and read it and why/why not?
2. 2. You awake in the year 2160 as the
first successful cryogenic patient ever. What killed you back in 2015 has been reversed. What are your first thoughts and do you feel lucky or blighted?
3.
Imagine this is you speaking:
'Despite my sadness, I look up from the park bench and watch a train speed into
the tunnel. A passenger in the last compartment waves and I gasp. It can't be,
it just can't be?' Describe what happens next.
4.
Imagine you wake up and you are no
longer in your own bed at home. Instead you are freezing cold, lying on your
back and gazing at the stars. Slowly you stand and notice you are on a large
ocean liner; its funnels clear against the moonlight. You turn to read the name
on one of the lifeboats and your heart lurches; 'HMS Titanic'. Describe what
happens next.
