Don't Talk to Strangers

You meet a strange man in a bar. He's very interesting to chat with for awhile, time flies. Next thing you find yourself leaving with him, not drunk but not 100% sober. It was very kind of him to buy you a couple of drinks. So you wander off into the night, still listening to him talk.

In the morning you wake up sealed in a glass pickle jar, Bicks Pickles as you can read on the label through the inside of the glass. How did that happen?!!

Embarrassing Names

What would be a really embarrassing name? If you were thinking of a name for someone in a story you were writing what would be the worst name you could give them? Don't be afraid to be truly evil. Pick one for pure embarrassment and another for evil, adult humour, embarrassment. Can you think of a name that isn't just about potty humour, that's trickier, as we tend to fall back on something childish/ simple when asked to think of something embarrassing.

Invent an Alien

What does an alien really look like? Consider the planet your alien comes from, the climate and how they would have adapted in order to survive. What features would they have and where would they be?

Body Part Donations

You've got a clone in the works so you have body parts to spare for those in need. What body part would you part with for someone in need of a quick replacement? Would you give your hand to a friend? Would you give an eye, an ear or how about the whole head? How much of yourself would you donate and how much of a friend or lover or close family would the person in need have to be?

Grocery Shopping Adventure

Write a grocery list. But, write it as if you were either an alien from another planet or a Mennonite, neither of these have ever been inside a grocery store before. It's a whole new adventure!

Climbing to the Top

You wash ashore at the foot of a very tall and stony cliff. At the top you can see a castle, like something out of a gothic romance movie. A long and twisted stair case leads up from the beach to the top of the cliff. If you turn the other way you can see the wreckage along the beach from your round the world on a sailboat cruise, didn't work out quite the way you expected. The castle looks a little creepy, but what choice do you have? Looks like you've got nowhere to go but up. So, what waits for you at the top of those steps and where do you go once you're up there?

Packed Full of Cash

You find a backpack full of crumpled up money. No one is around, no one seems to think anything about you picking up the backpack and walking off with it. When you get it home and count it out you find just over $100,000.00. What do you do with it?

Train Station Mistaken Identity

You're in a train station, it's busy, a train is just pulling out. Someone wearing a dark trench coat taps you on the shoulder, pushes a box into our hands, mumbles something you don't quite catch then takes off. By the time you have realized you don't know who they were you can just see their hat, already lost in the bustling crowd. You decide to take the box to the lost and found, figuring whoever it should belong too will have a chance of finding it there. On the way there three different people approach you or just accidentally on purpose bump into you. Each of them ask if you are Dunwally. Who is Dunwally, no... really, who is Dunwally?

The Magic Word

What is the magic word, really? A different word for everyone. Maybe for one person sorry is the magic word. Another person will say please is the magic word. Another person will say it is success. What is your personal, magic word and why is it?

Sunday Breakfast

Your favourite Sunday breakfast restaurant is closed. Do you look for a new place to try, go to the well known fast food place even though you don't really like it all that much or do you just go back home and make something there? What do you think your choice says about you and yourself as a character?

Now you Always Have Someone to Talk To

A second head has sprouted on your left shoulder. How icky! How weird! How like some horror movie! But it doesn't have to be a horror, after all it's still your head, part of you. What kind of personality does your second head have? What are it's thoughts, what does it want? Plus, what is the story of it getting there in the first place?

Name the Stray Kitty

You find a stray kitten, in some alley between a couple of buildings. It's pretty cute, of course. You decide to adopt it and find a place for it. Now time to think up a name for it. What will you call it and why did you pick that name?

A Little Nose Picking to Go

You've just been caught picking your nose, in public. Sure it was just a little quickie and you're just getting over that cold after all. But, now you're caught. What story do you come up with to tell your audience? Something that can slip off your tongue at the spur of the moment, something simple to sound believable. Something to spare your pride and dignity.

What Colour is Your Day?

What colour are you today? Don't pick your favourite colour right away, think about how the day is going, how you are feeling. What colour are you with the kind of day you are having today?

The Great Evil Villain Planning Session

As a truly evil villain you need to come up with a new way to get rid of people who get in your way. Luckily there is a new building going in right across the street from you so disposal of the bodies is going to be pretty easy while they are digging out the foundations and then pouring concrete. It's the in between that you need to work on. Poison seems ideal, less messy than shooting and stabbing. But, how do you get them to take the poison, not knowing it will be their last day.

It Takes a Village

Imagine your own village. How would you organize the town, the services, the streets, the shops, the houses and the industrial section. Don't forget trains, planes and buses and all the forms of communication and power and water resources. Then there is all the entertainment and spiritual and parks and recreation. Set up your village to run well and work for all the citizens. Think of practical things and think of what you would like yourself. Now draw it all up.

Sweetheart or Shark?

You wake up one morning and... you've been turned into.... a lawyer! A cut throat, ambulance chaser in expensive suits. Your first case of the day is a widow you know killed off her husband. She is paying you a bucket of money from the insurance claim to make sure she gets away with it. Would you continue on, making easy money (and a tonne of it) or would you change and become a saintly, goodie goodie lawyer helping 'the people' and borrowing money from friends so you can afford your morning coffee? It all depends on your version of success and happiness.

Big Or Small?

Would you rather be a giant or very small? What adventures would you have as a different sized person and how would you cope with every day stuff like getting to work, showering, eating lunch?

Golden Goose Egg

A goose flies in your home. You are chasing it from room to room and thinking you'll never get it out before it starts leaving bird droppings all over your place. Then it settles on a table, squats and produces a golden egg. Amazing. You check it, wipe it clean and it really does seem to be gold. A giant comes to your home, demanding his goose back. How do you try to hide it?

Fly Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease

However it happened, and you're still not sure as it was a pretty busy evening, you have the power of flight for 24 hours exactly (no pausing and restarting) from the moment you first test out your new wings, so to speak. You don't grow wings. You just hold out your arms and decide how you want to go, hovering, full flight or just soaring on currents of air and seeing where the wind takes you. How do you use your 24 hours of flying time?

Bald and Toothless

You have a dream where all your hair and teeth fell out. Not a pleasant dream at all. When you wake up it still feels so real (and you've been so stressed out lately) that you have to make sure. To your absolute horror... it's true! Your mouth is all gums and your head is all smooth, hairless. On the bed, all around and under your twisted sheets you pick up chunks of your hair, just looking at them, still not quite believing. Is this some evil joke? To be really sure you stagger to the bathroom only to have it confirmed again in the mirror. Oh horrors!

What do you do now? You have the day ahead of you, a busy day, a stressful day where you can not find time to go to the dentist or wig shopping.

Calling Occupant of Interplanetary Craft

Your best friend was just abducted by aliens. You come up with some wild, half baked plan to save her from the alien spaceship. It backfires. Now you are on the ship as it speeds off to.... somewhere in space. So, now what's your big plan?

Were- World Building

Getting into the paranormal romance genre... if you were a were-creature what kind would you be? There seem to be so many to choose from. The traditional werewolf has gotten a lot of company: werecats, weredragons, werebears... If you were half human and half animal what would your other half be? Once you decide create a world around you. What kind of world does your were-creature live in?

Even Soap Opera Divas Get the Blues

You're an actor on a soap opera. You're gorgeous, you have fans around the world and your own lofty apartment in New York City. Things are going pretty great and you look good too! So what's your problem? Even the most beautiful and rich have problems. Do you secretly have warts? Does your Mother call and nag at you about not being married yet? Is she drunk when she calls? What is the fly in your perfect life and why does it make you feel like a fraud, so much less than the glossy photos in magazines make you appear?

The Price was Wrong

You get home from shopping and happen to look at your receipt. You realize you just paid $10 more for something than it was advertised for on the store shelf. Do you get steamed but just do nothing in the end? Can you admit that you are more likely to not do anything about it, that you'll be busy and forget. Write about taking it back and how things turned out, do you get your money back or does the clerk argue with you?

Cooking Up Magic

You're a world famous chef. You've just been asked to put together your first ever cookbook for publication. What is your signature dish, the one that will be on the cover of the book along with your face? What combination of ingredients will bring the magic you're looking for?

Purple People Eating Plant

Your Great Aunt Emmaline Jane Bratzwurst left you just one thing in her will. Most of her estate, money and other riches went to her cat. You're only a little jealous, really. But she did leave you a plant, a weird plant with thick leaves and a huge purple flower pod-like thing. It comes with an instruction booklet. Basically, it's a meat-eating plant and it wants to eat lunch, now. In return it promises to give you anything and everything you want. What do you do?

The Average Geeky Nice Guy Wins

You're starring in a new movie, Jungle Jane. The script has you land on an island, discover ancient ruins, dinosaurs, tribal natives with head hunting on their minds, and then you're supposed to fall in love (or at least sleep with) your co-star. The only problem is, your co-star is a complete jerk. There is another guy in the film but he's the geeky nice guy. In the script he gets killed off early, in the crash landing scene. How do you rewrite it so that the nice guy wins and the typical handsome co-star type gets blown up on the crash landing instead?

Bucket Foot

Silly you... not looking where you were walking (or at least what you were walking into) now you've stepped into a bucket of wet cement. Not only is your foot stuck in the bucket but in the time you struggled to get it out the cement has hardened and your foot really is stuck now. So much for those shoes! But, the construction foreman says you can come back at the lunch break and he will have some plan to help you then.

So, how do you spend your morning with your foot stuck in a bucket? Do you call in sick or go ahead and show up for work anyway? What do you tell everyone when they ask about the bucket at the end of your foot?

You're the Genie in the Bottle

You're the Genie in the Bottle and you're not very nice. Well, being stuck in a bottle will do that to a person. You've been released from the bottle and it's yet another human asking for basically the same wishes they all ask for. First it's always money, then model good looks and then either health or eternal life or some variation of those. The odd one asks for world peace or some such goodie goodie thing, how boring! How do you give them what they ask for while thwarting them at the same time?

For the Flat Earth Society

You've been taken back in time to where people believe the world is flat and to disagree could cause you severe ill health, not to mention the whole being burned at the stake thing. So, how do you convince everyone you really do believe the Earth is flat. How would you explain how silly it is to believe the Earth is anything but flat?