OVERVIEW

The concept for this daily writing exercise was simple: I had ten minutes to write a poem about a randomly generated word. The length of the poem was the number of lines of a page of my notebook, or how many words I could write in ten minutes, whichever came first. No thinking, just write.

How did it work?

• Set timer for 10 minutes
• Go to watchout4snakes, and generate a word. That’s the theme.
• GO! No judgments, no editing. Fill the page as quickly as possible.
• Stop clock. Note time. Take photo of the poem. Add to the gallery on phone.
• Do this every day in 2019.

Results

Aside from waking my brain up, it gave me 365 poems. Some of them are definitely throw-away poems, but some are worth working on to make better or use as inspiration for something bigger. It was fun, and now I have an impressive stack of words to represent a year’s worth of ten-minutes-a-day work.
 
The following. year, I used some of them during my SIP Poetry Reading project.

 

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