2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is to practice with a borrowed form: the text message. We're demanding an answer from someone who's unresponsive, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She's been on the receiving end of threads like this before, so writing one is ... interesting.

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.