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:

Using language as bloodless and legally flavored as possible, write a mobile app user agreement that grows increasingly sinister in its threats to the user, their family, and the world.

Our themes this month were:

• 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.

Also coming up in February … new themes (including looooooove stories). See you tomorrow for a new day and a new month of writing!