In a private online community I lead a writing exercise that is my version of Writing Down the Bones derived from a book by Natalie Goldberg.
The way it works is a topic is announced and then you have ten minutes to write - thing is you're not allowed to edit: the goal is to turn off your inner editor and just write.
The topic was clicked and this is what came out of me:
If my cats were to take notes on ten minutes with me, recording sounds and thoughts:
Human's on the computer again:
click, click, mouse scroll (but not the of mouse we like)
click, click, pause while reading, click
We approach. What is the human clicking? Or is it clicked? Human English and its tenses - so hard to understand, Catish being so superior a language.
Click. Click.
We step on the keyboard. Now a different click click click sound as our paws click on the screen.
The human has stopped his clicking now, what with our butts up in his faces. Doesn't he understand that for us to put butt in face is a compliment? It's a story he clicked on yesterday.(yeah, we know how to check your browsing history while you're at work)
He's asking us to leave. Why? so he can resume clicking on that facebook site he's always on?
Fine. But we're still paying attention.
click click
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