1. CREATIVE WRITING WARM UP Choose one to respond to. Describe what you see in this photo. Describe what you don't see-- the interior. Describe the person who comes out of the place. What does the person do? Exercise #1 What is the Parakeet saying to the Cat? And what is the reply? After writing the dialogue, write the subtext-- what the animals really want or think-- or what the unseen human beings are thinking/doing.

2. Autobiographical Writing Warm up  What is an autobiography?  Why might someone choose to write one?  Write about a time that you felt afraid of something.  What was it that scared you?  Why?  What was the outcome?

3. Impossible Questions Examples:  The colour purple smells of spring flowers in full bloom, dripping with the sweet sticky scent of everything that is new.  Silence sounds like the deepest darkest depths of the ocean.  Silence is when the chatter of the mind ceases-- worry, desire, anxiety, expectation die and the mind is a blank slate of stillness

4. Other impossible questions…  Who is fear?  What does love look like?  What does red smell like?  What does hate say?  What does fear taste like?