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1) The document provides a series of prompts for inventing or imagining new concepts, objects, scenarios, and conversations. 2) The prompts include inventing a new food, season, mode of transport, medicine, country, weather, job, and fish as well as imagining what God eats, what flowers would say if they could talk, who lives in a house, sits in a chair, and owns various objects. 3) The prompts also involve imagining conversations between items in a room, where socks go, what rain or a rainbow would be like as a person, and describing sights seen out of windows or upon waking from camping.
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- 1. Invent a new food and describe how it tastes. Invent a fifth season. Give it a name and the describe it.
- 2. Invent a brand new mode of transport and describe how it works. Imagine what God would eat for breakfast and dinner.
- 3. If flowers could talk, what would they say? Design the perfect superhero
- 4. Invent a new bird and describe it . You step off a bus in the year 2933. Describe what you see.
- 5. Invent a new item of clothing and explain how to wear it. Invent a new sport and explain how to play it.
- 6. Invent a new medicine, what does it cure and how? Choose any two items in the room and write a conversation between them.
- 7. How will the world end? You have discovered a new country. What is it like?
- 8. Invent a new type of weather and describe it. Describe where you feel safest
- 9. You look out of the window and see this. What is it? Where are you? You camp out one night and awake to see the following sight. Describe how you feel .
- 10. Who lives in this house? If these draws were a person, what sort of person would they be?
- 11. How would a rainbow feel if you could touch it? You have seen this thing below. Were where you? What is it?
- 12. Imagine who sits in this chair? You walk into a room and see this object. What is it? How did it get there? Who does it belong to?
- 13. How did this man get stuck in the wall? Where have these feet been today?
- 14. If your shoes could talk, what would they say to you? Invent a new fish and describe it.
- 15. What is this? When socks disappear, where do they go?
- 16. Invent a new job. What do you have to do and why? If rain was a person, what sort of person would it be?
- 17. Describe the person that owns these vases. What does happiness feel like?