Using a well-defined text convention that is not narrative prose can catch the eye of a casual reader and force the writer to improvise to adopt the conventions of the borrowed form.

For today’s ten-minute writing exercise:

Write a Reddit AITA post where the poster is narrowly in the right in the situation they’re asking about, but is clearly withholding relevant information or just personally insufferable. With any extra time, write response posts with multiple conflicting judgements.

Our themes this month are:

• First lines and beginnings
• The 3am Epiphany by Brian Kitely
• Sparks from Japanese literature
• Borrowed forms

We also wrote a complete work of flash fiction together in a week from Jan 20 – Jan 26. If you liked it, or if you missed it, you can check out those days OR join us in the back half of February, when we’ll be doing it again. No pre-work needed, and as always, zero homework outside of our ten minutes a day.

See you tomorrow for a new day of writing!