7. EXERCISE 3: Each moment is a Splash in Time

In his excellent book, On Writing Well, William Zinsser has this to say :
"You learn to write by writing. It's a truism, but what makes it a truism is that it's true, and it can't be repeated often enough. The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis."

That's the point of One Day at a Time; it's role is to help you to force yourself to produce a certain number of words every day.

So what you are doing is starting a writing journal. In your journal you can :

 let off steam;
 draft a poem;
 wonder about what a wonderful / strange day you have had;
 wonder about what an exciting / boring day you have had;
 have a rant about something that gets up your nose;
 recall things that happened to you when you were a child;
 write the lyrics of a song;
 write about what you'd rather be doing;
 reflect on how your life is going;
 jot down snippets of other people's conversations;
 make lists of interesting words;
 reflect on how your writing is going;
 create thumbnail sketches of characters for a novel or short story;
 create mind maps;
 jot down quotations that you think you might use later ...and so on.

Writing down these ideas onto the screen is like dropping small stones into a pool of water. Each stone creates a small splash in your mind ...

Right now, choose ONE of these splashes - one of these ideas - and write for 10 minutes - or longer if you wish.