e-free-writing

It's been a hellova day so far (training, eating Belgium chocs, doing lunch) so apologies for the late blog, to anyone who normally expects a mid-morning ali update.

Main and most exciting news of the day...Steve's home! He arrived at 8am this morning, and headed straight into work, poor little bunny. He's been featured in lots of dull insurance trade publications for his recent promotion and has spent the day e-mailing me telling me 'I'm famous'.

Last night after popping in to some work drinks in a terrible, awful meatmarket of a bar called 'prohibition' on Bishopsgate, I headed home to my spiritual home, Brighton and to the 7dials bar de jour, Zuma.

It was there me, Dan, Jonathan, Anne Sophie, Natalia and Vic masterminded the next BIG thing to hit the blogging world, 'e-free-writing'.

Everyone knows that writing stuff down is a sure fire way of getting it out of your mind, and often out of your system. It's good therapy and unlike most, it's free. So if you take it to the next level, beyond well thought through letters, poems, diary entries, blogs even, you get 'free writing'.

So you find yourself a nice quiet time and place, and you put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard take a deep breath and then essentually vomit the entire inner workings of your mind onto a piece of paper or screen for a set period of time. No punctuation, no stopping, no time to think about what someone might think. Just get it all out there. Liberating stuff!

So come and join us for our first group e-free-write. It's short and snappy, just 2 minutes, so there are no excuses for 'not having time'. As if we need any excuses for work avoidance anyway!

We're going to be doing it on Monday 5th February, and then I'll be posting the results to my blog on the Tuesday, anonymously, to protect us all incase we write things we'd rather not be responsible for. If you want to join in, you can simply post your e-free-write into a comment on the blog.

We're all hoping it will be a thought provoking exercise which will generate lots of interesting conversations.

Hopefully it won't be used as evidence in a future police investigation.

The more the merrier, lets e-free-and-be-merry!