WARMUPS
Get your word and image brain moving. Use as many as you need. Think of this like stretching before a run, a way of simply arriving in your writing mind without the distortion of any particular focus or pressure. Disregard correctness and intention; keep the windows and doors open.
here's a warmup prompt dialed up at random

Minute Lists (9)
Choose five minute lists* or use these: names for surveillance gadgets that might be invented next year, words of three syllables, words descriptive of water temperature, words pertaining to furniture, words beginning with L.
*Minute Lists are a language brain warmup. Choose four or five lists, and for each, set a one-minute timer and write as many words as belong to that list as come to mind, writing at speed without pausing. Restart the timer immediately and move on to the next list. Although the list presents a rule, accept any word that your brain surfaces, even if it is a false match or a made-up word. The speed and free-for-all ethos are aimed at getting your vocabulary moving for a writing session ahead, but minute lists can also be a little like panning for gold, surfacing shiny things—names, objects, expressions—that you might want to use. I occasionally trawl my lists, circling pleasing words with a pen of a second color for easy retrieval later.
here's the full warmup archive














Triplets
In a column down your page, write triplets in the form: ___ly ___ing ____s For example, wildly oscillating notes or blankly farting genies. Take the





Collector Warmup
Take a walk around the space you’re in, or the space just outside it. Collect three objects; either carry them to your desk or take

Chord Moods
This is a game for writing sentences. It plays with the voicing of different musical chords to find ingredients. In a chord, the root note