Once upon a time I did a Oneword every day. I’ve fallen out of that practice (not to mention the practice of posting in general), but I’ve replaced it with something just as cool: Twitter. If you’ve never seen Twitter, its premise is to get you to answer the question “What are you doing right now?” It accepts SMS messages, so responses must be kept to 140 characters or less.

On the surface it sounds like a time-waster, and certainly it has that potential. But there’s a lot for a writer to love about the concept. That 140-character constraint is magical. It’s challenging and fun to attempt to write something interesting about myself in such a small space — something that might catch a random reader’s eye. Follow the minutiae of my daily life at http://twitter.com/gravelpup. Sign yourself up if you’re up for the challenge.

(This post was written on my iPhone on its last 10% of battery charge. A constraint of a different sort.)

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