Motivation

In order to have a writing practice, you have to practice. Time your writing. Sit down and write for 3 minutes with no strings attached. So don't think about the novel, story or poem you've been working on, just write. You might surprise yourself!

Below is a timed writing I did for 6 minutes. I wrote for the first four and then for the last 2 minutes I took a turn writing from the opposite perspective. The prompt I chose was beginnings.

A beginning is also an ending that breaks when it rains instead of snows

and there are puddles in place of snowbanks.

Spring beginning and winter ending.

How difficult is it to picture the beginning of spring

when you are skiing through the woods and

the snow sparkle is blinding?

But yet you know it's there.

Is it even possible to imagine the difference in smell?

How the smell of the winter woods is cold and crisp

and the dank dampness of spring has yet to exist at all

and the bird sounds have become few and muted.

Nonetheless spring is there below the snow beyond your comprehension. 

And why is it we harken and haten then edning of one to begin another?

The accolades of a winter storm seem 

distant when we are barefoot on the hot summer sand.

Endings are beginnings with an end in sight

plans made for a begiing like the third trimester 

when it is time to ready the nursery and

when it is time for birth

it is time for death

Death ends and then begins anew.

What is this life but endings where I can begin.