Guide to Daily Write
Daily Write provides a framework for you to make time to pursue writing. Six minutes each set, 30 minutes a day (at once or broken up throughout) is all you need.
The aim of the lateral drafting process is to disrupt our typical, logic-based patterns of thinking to develop new connections outside of known patterns when writing and revising our work. We can use a multi-directional approach for writing via a quick write, where you're served visual and text prompts designed to trigger inspiration. On each minute, a new texture word will appear to integrate into your writing.
Lateral Drafting Framework
- Read new work & critically think about it
- Draft original writing fueled by lateral inquiry
- Practice mimesis to understand how the writing works
- Study to integrate new concepts & techniques
- Revise writing using card decks
- Remain accountable by exchanging with others
Use the prompts in combination or separately, but perform each set for the entire 6 minutes. You can pause the timer, combine more than one set, and save your draft to local storage as a text file to return to. This ensures your writing is your own. It can't be seen by anyone but you and whomever you choose to send it to, and it can't be stored on a server. If you refresh the page, the contents disappear. Write privately and during this alpha testing stage, pay whatever you can.
The simple truth is that in order to be a writer, you must navigate work, family, and other obligations to develop writing. Create by breaking the established patterns that hold back your genius.