Write a series of odes to inanimate objects that hold importance in your life. Things that you rely on every day. Imagine your life without them, then tell them what they’re worth. And if there happen to be some living things you rely on everyday…write about them too.

Attack something. Get on your soap box. Rant. Curse. Be unfair. Be ruthless. And then apologize. But not til you’re ready. Take your time. You have a week…

This week, give us your version of the seasons and the weather that comes with them. The traditional and the non-traditional. Help us understand the seasons by how you experience or personify them.

Write a series of love letters this week to a film or fictional icon that you’ve had a “complicated relationship” with trying to unpack the meaning of their representation or a love letter to an old teddy bear in your room, a tree in your backyard or . . . someone you actually love and haven’t told in awhile.

Can you remember the last time you let your fire consume you to a point where you burnt someone with a truth perhaps lacking in compassion? Write a letter or poem to or about your fire, or to the one who most recently felt its burn.