Written in 10 minutes, and published!

Do you find it hard to believe that something written in just 10 minutes could be published? Yes it can! In the last week, Louis Faber has had two poems published which were written in 10 minutes in our Saturday writing group. In both cases, Lou didn’t even change a word!

Many people who have taken the Imaginative Storm writing course say they write better in 10 minutes than they can in an hour. Why? Because when you have an hour, you have enough time to try to write well—and trying to write well is the enemy of writing well. When you only have 10 minutes, you don’t worry so much about writing well, and what happens? Your authentic voice, and the playfulness of your imagination, can flow out onto the page.

“The Coming Storm,” inspired by the prompt of Trey Speegle’s image “The Future Was Better”, appears in issue 2, “East,” of Compass Rose.

“The New Gods,” inspired by video of the Data Center at CERN in Geneva, appeared in issue 32 of the Nonbinary Review:

Click here to order Write What You Don’t Know: 10 Steps to Writing with Confidence, Energy, and Flow by Allegra Huston and James Navé, founders of the Imaginative Storm method, or buy it from your favorite online retailer. It’s also available on Kindle and all other e-book platforms.

Our self-paced online video course “Write What You Don’t Know: Imaginative Storm Writer Training” is now available on Teachable. Take advantage of the introductory price!

Follow @imaginativestorm on Instagram for a daily writing prompt, or download May’s list of prompts here. You might also like to explore the extensive archive of visual and audio writing prompts on our YouTube channel. Then, publish what you write on the Imaginative Storm Circle platform! We’d love to read it.