Dear fellow writer,
Welcome to Day 18 of your 30-day Writing with Pleasure challenge!
Your challenge today is to try out some snack writing: writing for just a few minutes at a time between other tasks rather than in one long push. Enjoy this experiment with snack-writing – and let me know how it goes in the comment section down below this video.
If you want to time your writing, here’s a fun timer to try!
You can find a playful selection of short timers ideal for snack writing on the Timed Writing (Pomodoro) playlist on my YouTube channel, and many more in the WriteSPACE membership library.
Thanks for showing up to write, and I’ll see you tomorrow.
Ngā mihi mahana (warm greetings),
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Once I came over to actually read the post, I was a little disappointed that I wasn’t going to eat chocolates for 25 minutes. But, I do like this kind of permission to be unfocused. I’ve been typing up bits of quotes to see if I can categorize them into two or three paragraphs and then wandering off again. (And I’m imagining that I might go back and pick up the missed writing challenges when we’ve finished the thirty days - I’ve got a calendar missing several checks now.)
I’m just back, too. It’s been a huge couple of weeks, with a 3-day heatwave (temperatures around 42-45C/107-113F each day) followed by bushfires. Sunny the cat and I evacuated to my mum’s, and my partner was out firefighting. Weirdly, I was able to use the heatwave to get a lot of writing done during the heatwave; it was too hot to do much else. The fires have scattered my thoughts, though, and recovery activities make it hard to find time or concentration. Many homes in the towns and farms near us have been burnt down.
Snack writing is perfectly timed for this moment.
By the way, Helen, I decided on the day after our evacuation that I would draw a Tarot card to help focus my thoughts. I drew…the Tower! How apt.