Minute Writing #009

It feels as though I'm always tired these days. Drinking enough water? Still tired. Eating well? Still tired. Sleeping 8hrs? Still tired. Sleeping through the night? Still tired. I'm starting to think it's less to do with my body and more to do with my mind. And everyone around me also seems to be tired all of the time. Perhaps it's the state of being right now. A trend I'm not fond of.

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Minute Writing #008

The weather in Brisbane right now is quite teasing. Each day it's overcast with the promise of cosy sprinkle and then it grows hot and I wake the next morning to find that all the raining has occurred whilst I was asleep. Sometimes I wake up mid-sleep mad about it if I can hear it.

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Minute Writing #007

I’m a pretty fast typer, but my current keyboard doesn’t have a numpad and apparently I lose all sense of direction when I need to put in a number. From the row just above all the keys that I can touch type on … literally right above them. And yet I have to stop and move my hands away from the keyboard … just to look for the right number. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.

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Minute Writing #006

Minute writing becomes hard if you stop and try to edit the sentence whilst you’re writing it. As soon as you start thinking about the words too much, the flow stalls and the seconds run away from you. But that’s the point of the exercise, to get that dam bursting. Release the words! They yearn to be free! Just catch them and put them on the page instead of letting them away!

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Minute Writing #005

Sometimes I get a migraine that’s annoying like a fly. It comes and goes with a frustrating persistence and unpredictability. But like a fly brandishing two daggers at me, stabbing me as it comes and goes.

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Minute Writing #004

I hate the stickiness of heat. I don’t like summer and though I’m appreciative of all the sun does, I often hiss at it to go away. But it comes down to the stickiness of the heat. The way my skin grabs onto surfaces and other skin. The way the fan can’t keep it dry. Like I’m constantly being licked by a large dog. It’s gross.

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Minute Writing #003

She told me that she has an imaginary friend and so I have to sit in a different chair. I play along to be polite, introduce myself and offer to shake the friend’s hand. She tells me he’s much taller than me and so I need to reach up more. I ask if he can meet me halfway, laughing. I stop laughing when something shakes my hand back.

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Minute Writing #002

There’s a lot of pressure when starting a writing minute. Mostly on whether or not it counts when I think about it or when I touch the keys. The problem about waiting to touch the keys is that it’s hard to watch the timer but sometimes when I start the timer my brain freezes and I don’t get anything in the first twenty seconds. Does the panic that ensues count?

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Minute Writing #001

How many words could one write in a minute? I suppose it depends on how many images can be conjured and translated into words. That’s what I’ll be practising with for a little bit. Ejecting whatever’s in my brain for a minute. We have twenty seconds left and that tension scrambles my brain.

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