<li>Write a cumulative sentence together: “Arriving late, … to sit down at my desk …”—<em>Arriving late, after forgetting my coffee—now cold a fridge unplugged—in the rush of guilt from forgotten alarms, my clothes still damp having quickly grabbed them from the still-turning drying, I was desperate to escape the stifling conversation, prattling and monotone, of my dull-eyed coworkers, which was focused on weekend plans, how many inches of rain were expected, and the circuitous detail of their underdeveloped dreams about toe fungus.</em>— have fun and be ridiculous to hunt for opportunities, then go back and revise, overwrite and pare down.</li>
<li>Notes on simile: <ul>
<li>simile has emotional and physical register</li>
<li>more than a physical comparison.<ul>
<li>Bad: “his legs were thick like tree-trunks”</li>
<li>Good: imbue with something much larger. “His legs were thick like he had dedicated himself to becoming a statue, some solid object people admired and pointed toward”</li>
