Make a list of activities that take place over a brief period of time, a few hours at most. Here are some ideas, but come up with your own: a dinner date, changing a flat tire, birthday party, a drive home from school, a basketball game, or cleaning your room. Try to write a short (five-page) story confined to that period of time.

Write a couple of pages composed entirely of a character's thoughts, elucidating the mental state of a character before he or she does something pivotal, like getting married, or shooting a penalty kick, or robbing a convenience store, or stepping off a bridge, or getting shot in the head.

Explore the forbidden today. Begin with a memory, something already risked. Recapture, in writing, the sensual experience; make up what you don't recall. Or, approach something currently forbidden: an affair, belching in public, eating a whole chocolate cake by yourself. Risk it on paper; it's authentic when you feel the physical thrill.

Write an "I'll get to it today" poem. Why wait? Achieve something today. This poem could even be about writing a poem today.