Most of us do of our best writing when we're relaxed and not trying too hard. If you haven't written in a while, you're almost definitely trying too hard. Don't worry, I am too. I'm currently fighting the urge to turn off the comments on my first post, even though it only has 1 page view and it's from my husband. Now I'm fighting the urge to add a sparkly adjective or two to that last sentence. Anyway. (I didn't mean "anyway." I meant "but I digress." No, fuck that. I meant "anyway.")
Anyway, instead of staring down the blank page today, open up your Gmail, your Facebook, your Twitter and your Ello if that's still a thing in an hour. Pick a recent conversation you've had with a friend. Zero in on a few key lines, and copy and paste them to your scary blank page, like so:
Yeah, I don't even know.
Take your chosen snippet of chatter and expand on it for 10 minutes. That doesn't mean you have continue the conversation in a dialogue, though you can if you want to. It could be anything, including:
1. A meditation (eg: love letter or bitch session) on how you really feel about the person you were corresponding with.
2. A found poem/short story using a bunch of different conversations gleaned from various sources.
3. The next Texts from Bennett.
4. Chatting with a friend, but it counts as writing because of the nature of this exercise, which means you ultimately achieved procrastination for one more day. I could learn shit from you.
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