Challenge 12 – Due 13/02 at 09:59:59am GMT
Let’s do a time restriction exercise
Decide how much time you want to write today (it could be five minutes or 6 hours, 17 minutes and 32 seconds).
Get your timer out and programme into it half of the time you set for today (I mean, dividing by two?! So easy… you’re all maths pros now!)
Start writing about anything. Maybe ask yourself the question “how am I feeling today?”, or write about time restrictions.
It might come out as a monologue, or a dialogue, or maybe you have more voices in your head…
Once the timer beeps – stop writing.
Take a short break
and then set your timer again for the second half, in which you are to edit the play, make sure it has an extraordinary ending, get the formatting right, etc.
If you want to complicate things slightly (you don’t have to), you can be more time restrictive – (for example, half the second half and use one half for the ending and one half for the editing and formatting, or half that final half and use one half for the editing and one half for the formatting or half that second half and use the first half for the formatting and the second half for a proofreading or half that… I’ve inadvertently found myself in Zeno’s Paradox… I am never getting out of this! You just continue on your way… leave me here! …half that second half and use it for con…)
For bonus points, maybe use a new font that you’ve never used before…
This is another one where the prompt was more inspirational than literal… although I think I actually did write it in about five minutes.
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