#timing video

[ashmarie1687]

Just for fun and because it doesn’t happen a lot, here is a video of the 4 minute stamp changing to 5 minutes (4m ago to 5m ago) on their first two retweets. Not even a second, if that. Also I couldn’t add it to my original timing post.

[thenearsightedmonkey]

This timing video includes the set up exercises we do before we begin writing: getting our materials together, numbering a page from one to ten, getting our bodies ready to write using points of awareness and a poem by Rumi, choosing a word, taking 90 seconds to find up to ten memories associated with that word, choosing one of those images to investigate further by answering a series of questions posed here by Professor Old Skull. After you've completed the set up exercises in this video you'll be ready to write.

[thenearsightedmonkey]

Part two of the nine minute writing exercise: this is the timing video for the actual writing part to use after you've done the set up exercise.

You'll have nine minutes to write up the scene. Unthinkable Mind students should write it in the third person, present tense, using 'X' as the main character's name.

This exercise also works just as well in first and second person present tense. No matter which perspective you choose, you should write about the scene you described during the set up part of this exercise in the present tense, as if it's happening right this minute.

Note: This very low tech video is about 25 seconds shy of 9 minutes at one point can hear a cat trying to spit up a hairball in the background but it should still work as time trellis for your story to vine up and around.

And, as Kelly Hogan says, "Feel free to blow your mind with your own mind."

[thenearsightedmonkey]

Dear Unthinkable Mind class,

Here is the timing video for today's seven and a half minute writing session that is part of the the homework I've assigned you this week.

Our writing exercise for Thursday, February 7, 2013:

I'd like you to go back to last weeks list of ten images that came from word 'school yard' and use the image that is directly below the one you wrote about. So if you wrote about image #3 now you'll write about image #4. If the image you wrote about was #10, then write using the first image on your list.

Tomorrow I'll post the next image we'll be writing from.

Don't forget to keep your four minute diary. (Diary timing video is right here )

Special note to Basal Ganglia and Cerebral Cortex: we missed you on Wednesday!

[thenearsightedmonkey]

Here's Lynda Barry's four-minute diary timing video, in case you were looking for it!

Why is it so hard to keep a diary?

IT ISN'T!

Keeping a diary is much easier if you limit your writing to four minutes each day: two minutes spent writing a list of what you remember from the day before and then two minutes making a list of things you saw.

Use this timing video to help you keep your four-minute diary. After a week of doing this you'll start to notice what it is you actually notice as you go about your day.