1. Write for 5 minutes, stream of conscious, about anything you like. Try and get yourself in a flow, no pausing, as fast as you can. Kill your editor and produce.
2. Write as many introductions to your essay as you can with the remaining time. Get at least two intro paragraphs out. Try and grab the reader by the face with your first sentence. Some directions you might take:
1. Describe how where you are in terms of ecology has to do with who you are, your purpose.
2. Ask questions you hope to explore in your essay, then start to explore the most compelling ones.
3. You could also try and describe the areas you're talking about with a metaphor or simile: for example, describe the landscape as a person; what kind of person might it be?
4. Try and employ images. For every abstract thing you discuss, tie it to a specific vivid image.
5. Ask questions of what you've written so far.
6. Describe or narrate your emerging thinking on life place. EX: At first the concept of a bioregion, of life place, was foreign to me. I asked myself why should the bioregion I live in have anything to do with how I live? But then I was walking to school and stopped to watch a squirrel digging in the snow…
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