Five Minutes
As you may have noticed, I have successfully updated this blog after a little over a year of silence. One entry I’d already written, to be fair, but I also restarted with new material. The thing that held me back was the lack of time. I am currently working two jobs, sometimes three depending on the season, and I still have my Ten Thousand Flowers Project to attend to, as well as learning guitar and writing fiction. Finding an hour or two, as most writing advice recommends, is not something I can do on a daily basis. Even twenty minutes is too much to ask most days. So I experimented with five. Five at minimum, sometimes more. My technique is to sit down to work and glance at the clock. I calculate five minutes from there and start to work. Periodically I check the clock and stop when I’ve hit the five minute mark. Sometimes I get so absorbed in what I’m writing I breeze past five minutes. The point is to do something...