Instructions:
- Go to your local drugstore and purchase a cheap watch, the cheaper the better.
- Make your way back home – your lodgings, accommodation, housing or preferred place to write will also work.
- Pay attention to how you are feeling, what you are seeing, and the plasticky texture of your most recent purchase on your wrist.
- Once you have arrived at your destination, slice a day up into 24 portions, or segments. (This can be done most easily with a pencil and a piece of paper, but masking tape, a knife, or a towel can all achieve the same goal.)
- Take a moment to notice your segments and acknowledge their randomness. The segments can start and end on the hour, every hour, but they are still random.
- Spread your segments out over the next 24 days. (They needn’t correspond numerically, i.e. segment 1 does not need to be placed on day 1).
- Over the next 24 days make available, in your calendar, the specific time slot of the segment during its corresponding day. You will be busy.
- At least ten minutes before entering a segment, meditate and relax. This will help to remove inhibitions.
- You need only do one thing from your entering a segment to your exiting a segment: Write.
- Allow yourself to write about anything and everything that passes through your mind and allow these musings to snowball. Extrapolation becomes intoxicating.
- Monitor the time with your newly bought, local drugstore watch, and stop writing when the segment ends.
Compile and reread after 24 days.