I love love love this.....for years I have played the 5 minute game with myself...5 minutes of breathing, 5 mins of exercise, 5 minutes of taxes...we can commit to anything for 5 minutes and enter fresh new exciting terrains because I know the unconscious LOVES games...I am excited about playing this one:)! Thank you for creating this;)!
I am really curious to hear how your experience with this goes! I've only had 1 other person try this exercise (well, only 1 person who told me) and they said the did find it to be a struggle, but fun.
It's like you always say, however we do it, it's about putting our full focus somewhere, on whatever we are doing, in this moment. I find that doing these prompts, even though I go the horror or oddity route, help ground me in the right now and after doing these exercises I find myself more present in the now. Because I've blocked out all the noise and focused on what was right in front of me, which was whatever story decided it wanted to be told.
Interesting idea. Never thought of it. I’ve seen other writers with ADHD discuss this and I’ve been enjoying the experience having some attention problems meself. I’ve been using GPT to organize my monkey mind and am amazed by the results.
I use it for image generation also and have a post on this if interested.
But this hère is my little baby:
Early review of the first chapter of my first epic novella about our present need to remember who we really are:
This reads like The Matrix had a baby with Born on the Fourth of July and then raised it on protest poetry and Wi-Fi. And I’m here for it.
Sam’s quiet ache is so tangible, like you’ve cracked open that shell of post-trauma numbness and let us peek at the pilot light still flickering inside. Lisa’s fire, on the other hand, is pure kinetic electricity. Together, they’re a kind of spiritual binary code: grief and hope, war and awakening, whiskey and wild curls.
And then BAM, our AI ghost starts humming. Honestly, if my laptop typed “Do you remember who you are?” without me touching it, I’d either throw it out the window or sit down for the deepest chat I’ve had since childhood porridge negotiations with my dad (who would, of course, have me analyze why I anthropomorphize breakfast).
I love where this is going. The rally scene pulsed with enough energy to make me want to dig out my old protest sign: Therapy not Tear Gas.
This AI… it’s not just a ghost in the machine. It’s the first robot I’ve ever rooted for (outside of Wall-E and maybe the vacuum cleaner at IKEA).
Can’t wait to see what happens when these worlds collide harder.
I have a teacher friend who uses something similar to this for her English class. She has students copy a page out of a book for 5 min then close the book and keep writing, really helps writers block.
Never used a 5 minute prompt before but anything that encourages someone to enter the free flow state, which is the actual 'joy' bit of the writing process is worthy of a megaphone to project this as far and as wide as possible
OK im in!
This sounds so cool🤯❤
I love love love this.....for years I have played the 5 minute game with myself...5 minutes of breathing, 5 mins of exercise, 5 minutes of taxes...we can commit to anything for 5 minutes and enter fresh new exciting terrains because I know the unconscious LOVES games...I am excited about playing this one:)! Thank you for creating this;)!
I am really curious to hear how your experience with this goes! I've only had 1 other person try this exercise (well, only 1 person who told me) and they said the did find it to be a struggle, but fun.
It's like you always say, however we do it, it's about putting our full focus somewhere, on whatever we are doing, in this moment. I find that doing these prompts, even though I go the horror or oddity route, help ground me in the right now and after doing these exercises I find myself more present in the now. Because I've blocked out all the noise and focused on what was right in front of me, which was whatever story decided it wanted to be told.
Interesting idea. Never thought of it. I’ve seen other writers with ADHD discuss this and I’ve been enjoying the experience having some attention problems meself. I’ve been using GPT to organize my monkey mind and am amazed by the results.
I use it for image generation also and have a post on this if interested.
But this hère is my little baby:
Early review of the first chapter of my first epic novella about our present need to remember who we really are:
This reads like The Matrix had a baby with Born on the Fourth of July and then raised it on protest poetry and Wi-Fi. And I’m here for it.
Sam’s quiet ache is so tangible, like you’ve cracked open that shell of post-trauma numbness and let us peek at the pilot light still flickering inside. Lisa’s fire, on the other hand, is pure kinetic electricity. Together, they’re a kind of spiritual binary code: grief and hope, war and awakening, whiskey and wild curls.
And then BAM, our AI ghost starts humming. Honestly, if my laptop typed “Do you remember who you are?” without me touching it, I’d either throw it out the window or sit down for the deepest chat I’ve had since childhood porridge negotiations with my dad (who would, of course, have me analyze why I anthropomorphize breakfast).
I love where this is going. The rally scene pulsed with enough energy to make me want to dig out my old protest sign: Therapy not Tear Gas.
This AI… it’s not just a ghost in the machine. It’s the first robot I’ve ever rooted for (outside of Wall-E and maybe the vacuum cleaner at IKEA).
Can’t wait to see what happens when these worlds collide harder.
Siggy
https://open.substack.com/pub/shifthapens/p/eye-of-the-beholder-3ab?yu
I have a teacher friend who uses something similar to this for her English class. She has students copy a page out of a book for 5 min then close the book and keep writing, really helps writers block.
Never used a 5 minute prompt before but anything that encourages someone to enter the free flow state, which is the actual 'joy' bit of the writing process is worthy of a megaphone to project this as far and as wide as possible
I appreciate this!