Friday Five Minute Exercise - Pleasure and Pain

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Pleasure and Pain. Are you ever inspired to write by the occurrences of pleasure and/or pain in your life? Does writing about these topics allow you to understand yourself better? Painful memories often stay buried until the writing process digs them up for you to sift and sort through.

Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

Was this exercise helpful?

Did you succeed with this writing exercise? Was it helpful? What was it like to write about pleasure and pain? Was one more difficult than the other? Were you able to discover painful memories of your life and write about them? Were you able to feel better after writing about painful topics? Was this exercise helpful? Did you enjoy it?

Why or Why Not?

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Trust

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Trust. Write a self-analysis essay detailing your ability to trust others. Write about trust as it relates to your life. Do you have to trust in order to love or be loved? How do you deal with your trust issues? Do you use work or shopping to escape the pain of dealing with this issue? Is it hard to rely on the integrity, veracity or reliability of a person or thing as a writer?

Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

Was this exercise helpful?

Did you succeed with this writing exercise? Was it helpful? Were you able to find and write about your own ability to trust or trust issues that you might have and how they relate to you as a writer? 

Why or Why Not?