2. Write about three things you would like to change about yourself. Then write about three things you would not change about yourself.

3. Write about a creative way to persuade a parent to let you spend the night at a friend's house.

4. Write five endings for this phrase, "Someday...."

5. A person who doesn't know you has just walked into your room. Write a paragraph that tells what that person could learn about you by looking at items on your desk, by noticing your taste in colors, and by noting the tidiness of your room.

6. If you could have one animal from the zoo and enough food to feed it for a year, which animal would you take home? Write about your first day at home with your new pet.

7. If you could watch only one hour of television a week, what would you watch? Why?

8. "Today is your lucky day!" This is the message you find in your fortune cookie. If the fortune were to come true, what would happen on this day?

9. Write a paragraph supporting the statement "Beauty is only skin deep."

10. Each time you turn on your reading lamp, a strange image flashes an then disappears. Write about it.

11. Where would you go if you had the chance to take one trip in a time machine? Why?