I’ve not been writing much lately. The creative juices just aren’t flowing.

Even my blog is suffering.

The plug-in that digests my tweets from Twitter into a weekly post hasn’t been working properly since I upgraded my WordPress, so my blog is even more reliant on me actually blogging; Which has been very difficult in my current mental state. Not a lot happening in my brain at the moment.

Anyway, I’ve decided to rectify that…

It being the 1st of October, I’m setting myself a challenge for the next few months.

I have a book. I first came across it a couple of years ago. And then, a few months ago, I saw it again in Waterstones, and having a gift token from my birthday to spend, decided to buy the book.

It is called The Five-Minute Writer – Exercise and Inspiration in Creative Writing in Five Minutes a Day by Margret Geraghty.

“Just pick a page and begin your writer’s journey…” it says, and so I’m going to do just that.

There are 58 exercises and I’ve decided to literally pick one at random each day (or as often as possible, mental health and event work withstanding) and have a go.

Admittedly, the book is more geared towards the creative fiction writer, rather than the playwright, but it’s all good practise. (I may end up having to slightly change an exercise.)

Anyway, I’ve decided that in order to really push myself, I’m going to have to give myself a commitment, and what better than committing to publishing my results each day on my blog?

Yes, this may look a bit odd, and you’ll not know exactly what the exercise was, though I will give the title in the post.

Anyway, this is my blog, for my benefit, and if you get something out of it by reading it, then as far as I’m concerned that’s a bonus that I’m really pleased about.

Oh well, here goes. I’m not making any promises, but I’ll have a go! The title of each post will simply be ‘FMW’ and the exercise number. My first, just completed, will be FMW19.

And if you’re a writer, go buy the book and play along with me!

Actually, having just thought a bit more about this, maybe I should be setting myself a goal?

Ok, here it is: My goal will be to complete and post all 58 exercises from the book The Five-Minute Writer before Christmas 2009.

There, I’ve committed, and you can hold me to it!

Oh, Fuck!