Writing warm up games

We've decided it might be useful to come up with some little freewriting warm up games to loosen up users before they plunge into the scary thing that is a timed, no going back freewrite...gives them an idea of exactly how it works....

**Little freewrite warm up exercises:

http://www.manchesterbookaward.com/article/152/ - ask them to write about a single word. Share your ideas with a group/see what other people wrote...break down the inner critic, realise it doesn't matter what you write.

http://wastingwordsonlowercasesandcapitals.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/a-fun-writing-warm-up-2/- create a short poem from a set of given words.....

Some kind of group game played using http://www.kongregate.com would be amazing - something where you connect with others...and can be silly. then you do your freewrite and then can still share...the writing game Lyn's playing on the wiki with a couple of others might be fun - where you have to sort of fight to get your bit of storyline in and it can be as surreal or add as you like but ..maybe if you stop writing for a second and pause then you lose the thread and someone else gets it - a bit like just a minute in fact! Hmm, which encourages a certain level of babble......

Maybe a game a bit like this: http://practicallycreative.net/2007/08/01/c-art-egories/ where you're given a category and then you have to describe in as many words as possible 12 items from that category. Or where you have to describe an object without using particular words...

OK last one...it might simply be possible to get them to write a few really short freewrites on very simple things that have nothing to do with an essay - what they ate for lunch, describe a friend, the best thing that happened today....means there's not too much extra designing (or more to the point...programming) to be done!