The only thing to keep in mind is that the prompt needs a following action to move it along. Students may be allowed to write whatever comes to mind and this can be left completely open (as long as what they are writing are indeed sentences). These stories are the most fun since the students are free to improvise and to be as creative as they want to be. Some really marvelous stories can develop using this activity. As a strictly fun activity, the stories can simply be enjoyed as stories with no further analysis. A similar activity developed by Lindsay Clandfield and written up in the One Stop English website called “Mini-sagas” also present the opportunity for another interesting variation. She notes that her mini sagas, “. . .provide an excellent vehicle for a short writing lesson. This is because: they are easy to read, it is an easy task for the learner to understand . . . like all creative writing, they have the potential to be very motivating.”(Clandfield, 2007).