It’s Thursday. Claire is napping. The snow doesn’t seem to be letting up anytime soon. I finished listening to my latest audiobook last night. And, all of this considered, I’m feeling like I should be productive, yet I’m sitting here writing a disjointed blog post.

Interesting find this morning: One Two Fiver

I’m going to try it when I know I won’t be interrupted by an unexpectedly short nap. But essentially, as I understand it, it is a tool to make use of the “snowflake” method of writing: take a word, expand it into two, now five, and ten… and so on. Done correctly, a story crystallizes. Done wrong, and the entire fabric of reality folds in upon itself and the universe collapses into a… well, not really.

The real trick would be to do the same bit of writing in reverse. Take a long, rambling bit of text, shrink it, condense it, mash it, mush it, and in the end a single word defines what you’ve written.

On a similar vein: Write or Die

For those self-punishers out there, activate the nag of a timer and hair-trigger feedback system and start writing. Avoidance only results in further frustration. I think if I were on some kind of deadline, this could be useful.

But for now, my stolen nap-time minutes slinking quickly away, I guess I’ll just be sticking to the blog. Again.