1. Practice with Showing vs. Telling Group Challenge

2. Write a scene in which a woman is fired after only a week on the job.

3. Tell me a story that begins with a ransom note.

4. Put two people who hate each other in an elevator for 12 hours. What happens?

5. You are a customer lying face down on the floor during a bank robbery. Describe the robbery from this vantage point.

6. Finish this story: She walks cautiously up the pathway, not knowing what to expect. She slowly turns the doorknob, only to discover…

7. At a Chinese restaurant, your character opens his fortune cookie and reads the following message: "Your life is in danger. Say nothing to anyone. You must leave the city immediately and never return.” Tell this story.

8. At the airport, a stranger offers your character money to carry a mysterious package onto the plane. The stranger assures your character that it's nothing illegal and points out that it has already been through the security check. Your character has serious doubts, but needs the money, and therefore agrees...