Show, don't tell

If you try to explain something, you are doing the work for the reader, and not very well. Write from your senses, without comment or abstraction, and readers will conjure up their own images.

Pick a detail in this picture. Write down what you would see, hear, feel, taste, smell, if you were close to the objects – and conjure up an emotion that infuses the description with meaning.

Cream crackered

When you're completely exhausted, and have a stack of things to do before you can collapse in a heap, the world looks, feels and sounds very different, compared to a world viewed through sparkling clear eyes (not raddled old bloodshot ones with huge bags underneath).
Write a short piece (max 200 wds) from the perspective of a wrung out, knackered individual facing a tedious household chore.

Je ne regrette rien

It's often said that at the end of your life the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
So here's your chance.
Think back to a time you said 'No'.
This time, say 'Yes!'
Relate the consequences.
(200 wds max)

Point of view

The truth depends on where you're standing.
Write a scene from two points of view: parent and child.
It is a row about music. And volume.
One monologue by the parent, one monologue by the child. [100 words each]