This is a ritual.

The idea is that usually in the morning I will write for five minutes and post it here. I don't have any particular subject in mind, it is a place for inchoate thoughts. The only rules are that it should only be five minutes of writing and that it should be written before anything else.

The inspiration for this is Merlin Mann's video project Most Days. I could do a video instead but, well, I'm not going to. yig has a built in video camera so there isn't any reason to not do a video except my ardent desire to do no such thing. SO you have my words instead.

The idea of ritual is something that Twyla Tharp talks about in he book "The Creative Habit". I already have morning rituals of course, but none of them do anything except support my waking up in the morning. I wanted a ritual that supoorted me in working on the creative tasks that I want to work on, or that I feel like I have inside me.

And that's five minutes.

See you tomorrow.

Posted by Dunx at January 29, 2009 06:15 AM