I took a prompt from the Revised edition of Judy Reeves’ awesome book “A Writer’s Book of Days” and set a time for 25 minutes. I went a few minutes past the end of the timer so let’s call it a 30 minute sprint. In that time I wrote more that 900 words. I surprised myself. It’s just a practice narrative, no real story, just stream of consciousness imagining an alien trying to pay a visit to Paris. I had no idea where to go with it but was beginning to head towards the alien being from a gastropodal species (wearing a human disguise) and sampling the tastes of Paris only to discover what escargot was made from. Hardly original but maybe could be fun? I’ll file it away for later cogitation, as I do with all my practice writing. Still, 900 words in 30 minutes is a damn good rate. I’m happy about that.