day twenty-one
Today you’re going to have a little holiday from yourself and give yourself a pen name. Combine the name of the first pet you had with the town or street you grew up in as your first and second name. If you didn’t have a pet, what would you have called one?
For example, my pen-name is Mimi Bedford. Hello, nice to meet you!
Now write for six minutes as if you were your alto-ego. What kind of year have they had? How might they be different from you? Go!
You’re not trying to do anything here but have a bit of fun. Sometimes what we are doing when we write is open up new possibilities, and look at things we think we know well in different ways. This exercise is one way to help you do this.
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Share your writing, thoughts, or what your daily writing practice looks like using the hashtag #30everydaywords and tag me on instagram or twitter - @sarahsalway. I’d love to see what you write!
