On fire, creative writing...

Exercise about dialogue around a fire. 

Campfires and fireplace hearths are significant places: One seems to represent the temporary nature of life, and the other seems to represent permanence. They are also gathering places, where people share companionship either quietly or loudly! Write a poem or scene that includes dialogue and captures the nature of gathering by fire. What is the occasion? Who is there? What happens?

Exercise on ritualized burning.

Many people are moved to burn something significant in a ritual right of passage. Here are two prompts based on these fire rituals: 1) Two characters are each burning something, but one is displeased with the other. Why? 2) List things that you would burn. Why would you burn them? How would you go about burning them? Describe their burning.