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

Sound Translations
A warmup for both your mental flexibility of association and analogy, and for your language brain, especially insofar as our brains sort words for recall primarily by sound.
Tune into the sound of the space you’re in. Think of yourself as a single point within a field of sound. Notice near and far sound. Notice sound of different frequencies. Notice rhythms and broken rhythms.
Focusing in on now one, now another sound, make marks on a page that somehow record or notate the quality of the sound. It might be in cartoon style, it might be in abstract line, but either way, try to decouple the sound from its source, so that you notate only the sound, and not the soundmaker. Organize on the page without reference to the real space. Spend no more than a few minutes on this notation.
Set a timer for four minutes and write as many unrelated descriptive sentences as you can make by translating the quality of lines and images in the drawing you just made to words. Some sentences might literalize and transplant the sound quality. An example of this would be if I’ve drawn a tight zig zag cluster where a fly’s been buzzing around, and looking at my zigzags, I write a sentence that involves a tattoo gun. Other sentences might bounce off the drawing in a less legibly direct way, or work first through a kind of onomatopoetic sequence, first locating the sound and then finding words that use that sound and then making arbitrary sentences that use those words.
here's the full warmup archive

ostentatious labeling
Draw a map of the room you are in including its many objects. Label each one in a baroque, ostentatious manner. Where you could use

minute list trawl
Do four minute-lists* of your own choosing. Go back through them with a second color pen and circle any words that please you. * MINUTE

two-tone etude
Write a tiny narrative of a fictional event that uses only words beginning with two letters of your choice. Borrow a bit of letter-color synesthesia

100 words
Write 100 words, each one as categorically unrelated as possible to the one prior.

minute lists (3)
Choose 4 or 5 categories for minute lists.* If you’re in the middle of a process, then let at least a few of them related

your weather style
Write three days of weather reports using baroque, preposterous words. Then add one more in a deliberate monotone. Then write one more, splitting the difference,

object description
Find a few objects and arrange them in front of you. Spend five minutes writing a description of the scene. Perhaps approach it from the

Minute Lists (2)
MINUTE LISTS are a language brain warmup. For each list item, set the timer for one minute and write as many words as you can think of in that item’s category.

Minute Lists (1)
Minute lists activate your word brain. Set a timer for one minute, and for each list assignment, write any word that comes to mind under