Thursday, May 8, 2008

oneword.com


I launched this site in 2003 as a simple writing exercise for my own personal enjoyment. Shortly thereafter it became quite popular and had a steady stream of people coming to write each day. All was well until I switched servers and everything stopped working about a year and a half ago.

Finally, after countless inquiries, I re-launched the site a couple of weeks ago.

The site is designed to create a balance between your creative, flowing side and your logical thinking side.

You click “go” and a word comes up and you have 60 seconds to type whatever that word brings to mind as quickly as you can.

There are no fancy words here. The words are intentionally very simple so that no time is spent trying to define things.

This exercise, as simple as it may seem, will help you on many levels, so try it:

Don’t think. Just write...