May 17, 2014  Prompt #16

Today and tomorrow feature short prompts: less background, no writing group variations. Have a good weekend!

Surgeon General’s Warning

If you are not a smoker, don’t light up to complete this exercise. Work from memory or sit near smokers and take notes.

Instructions

1. Write for 10 minutes about tobacco (cigarette, cigar or pipe) smoke, either first- or second-hand. Consider how it smells, tastes, and looks.
2. Write down six adjectives and six verbs that describe smoke or your experience of it. Integrate some of these words into your piece. Write for 10 more minutes.

Further Writing

1. Write about entering a room that smells of cigar smoke.
2. Write about someone blowing smoke rings.

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