Pal Meaghan suggested this really fun site recently... OneWord. Once you click on, a random word is presented and you are free to write anything that comes to mind for sixty seconds, then you can publish it on their site. I published only one word and noticed that there is another "Cath" on there so I stopped publishing because I thought two Cath's would only confuse matters. So I just type for sixty seconds and move along. I love it. It's almost therapeutic, like automatic writing, and always gets the brain unstuck. You should totally try it out. My first word was, "Fail" which was interesting. Then my second word was, "Lust"- which was awesome. Today's word: Straw. Here's my submission:
"Bendy. But mostly any straw will do, especially...ESPECIALLY in the summertime when an iced vanilla latte requires such things. Sometimes I need that fix and it does me some good and so I continue finding great joy and calm in biting and sucking on straws. It sounds sort of perverse, but I'm just fine with that."
I'm a slow typist with multiple typos ( I make myself go back and correct things), comparatively, so that's all I wrote in the 60 seconds. Not particularly exciting, but it does make me want a straw right now.
(photo from Dear Machine)
