: Re: Creative writing exercises for engineers I'm teaching a problem solving course for engineering students (most around 19 years old) and want to increase their creativity levels. Any ideas for

Your goal is to get your students to think about using standard skills in non-standard ways. Anyone can build a house; not everyone can build Fallingwater.

Dig up classic engineering conundrums from the past (pyramids,
aqueducts, dams) and ask your students how they would solve them.
Find moderately ridiculous but not utterly implausible movie set pieces (Indiana Jones escaping
from the rolling rock and shooting darts, not Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear test in a lead-lined refrigerator).
Ask your students to design the traps.
Watch some recent Mythbusters episodes. Particularly in the last
five years, they've branched out from busting urban legends to
testing pop culture myths and viral videos. Look at the kinds of myths they choose to test, and the methods they use, and see what could be adapted.

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: In narration, stay in one tense. "She had green eyes" is fine, because your entire story is in the past tense — the "present-past," if that makes sense. If she had green eyes as a

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