What Helped Me Most This Week

I’m trying to do something creative every day. I’m documenting it here.

This week, I started re-reading Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta. But the thing I mostly did, and the thing that has helped me the most, is keep up with this micro-writing practice I’ve started. (Once again, I got the idea from Writer-ish, and I’m using this poetry prompt generator to give me ideas.)

Since starting this practice about ten days ago, I’ve fully written and revised seven micro pieces, ranging from 99 to 222 words. This is the most I have written in months, and might be the most I’ve written since graduate school. It’s not even that it’s a lot of words, but there’s something about creating a new thing from scratch this often that feels incredible. I used to love writing flash fictions, they’re basically all I wrote in college. These are an even smaller form, of course, but that almost makes them more fun. I’ve always wanted to be a poet (I think most fiction writers are like this), and writing these little tiny prose pieces almost feels like writing poetry to me.

Interestingly enough, there definitely seems to be a religious theme coming through in these pieces. The four horsemen of the apocalypse, Lot’s wife, and Julian of Norwich have made appearances so far, and I’m curious to see if that trend keeps up. It’s not something I’m doing on purpose, but I do wonder if now that I’ve noticed it, if it’ll keep up or fizzle out. I’m sort of hoping this religious trend keeps up, because I think it would make a really cool chapbook.

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So, that’s what actually helped my creativity, and also helped me generally, the most this week.

Love and gratitude, as always.