Weekly Writing: Branching out

This week's prompt is about stretching the mind, preferably into uncomfortable territory, which is often where the best and most surprising things can happen in your work.

So, for example, if you're not scientific, find a periodic table of elements. Pick a metal (gold, bronze, zinc, lithium, silver, tin) or a gas (helium, krypton), and and write about it for 10 minutes. Likewise, if you're not musical, pick an instrument you've always wanted to play (piano, oboe, accordion, tuba), and write about it for 10 minutes. If you don't know the right words and terms, make them up. Write with authority. Have fun with it.