BLACK ICE is the title on the book you find on the shelf at the bookstore (The Next Chapter). You turn the book over and read the blurb and then you open it to the first chapter and read the first few lines or paragraphs. Hmm........looks great!
   Write the blurb, then write the opening.

The first butterfly of the season. If you want, add anthropomorphism (humanize the butterfly).

Taking an item to the Antique's Roadshow. Try to use SHOW not tell techniques and at least for some of it, do "in the moment" writing.

Write about a Merry-Go-Round. If you want to stretch, write WILD, write NEW and DIFFERENT than you ever have, write AVANTE-GARD, write EXPERIMENTAL!