If You Had Three More Minutes to Write ~ and that would be your last writing ever ~ What would you say?

Timed writing is one of my favorite methods for getting to the heart of whatever is rushing around in my brain, unattended.

This is one of the reasons we use timed writing as a tool in Writing Camp and it is also one of the tools I use myself with writing longer projects, like my novel project.

For longer timed writings I use the #wordmongering or #wordsprint hashtag on twitter. I have a group I write with every weekday at 11 AM Pacific time. We don't share our writing or anything like that, we just put our heads down and write. It can get competitive but what I like the most is it assists me in being very productive.

Today I had three leftover minutes so I asked myself this  question:

What would I write in three minutes if it was the last three minutes I had?

Before I share my words, please don't gag if it feels so cliche and trite you get nauseas. Sometimes the reasons cliches come into being is the truth within them.

Love. Love. I would write love.

How could I fit love into 180 seconds? I couldn’t possibly be eloquent and profound on a three minute speech on love, now could I? I could do 30 intro seconds, 120 seconds of solid teaching and then 30 seconds of conclusion: some brilliant a-ha about love everyone would be able to carry around in their back pocket like “Julie’s Love Proverb for the Planet.”

Why do I sit here, in my chair typing about what I would write and how I would write and how it would fit and how the accolades would pour, unending, when there is, in this scenario, less than one minute left.

I would take a photo of myself writing LOVE! I would text it, before the last moments were gone, so everyone who received it would know my love intimately.

But I bet I would forget someone. I don’t want them to be hurt so maybe it is just better to leave it unsaid, unspoken, unreceived unfelt.

Three minutes are up.

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