Sit and think of yesterday. Concentrate. If you’re distracted, it won’t work. Now put it as a question. What can be said of yesterday? At first, nothing. But don’t let it be so. Go through the day. Identify the moment when nothing was happening, more especially when the only thing happening was consciousness of nothing happening. Now, in a few sentences, write. It has to be brief. Without flourishes. Just tell it. Use some description if you must but don’t let your short paragraph be mere description. Oh, and be prepared to get it wrong. Allow the first draft to be an approximation. You can come back to it later to disarm your sentences, to dissipate their desires. And remember, no moral, no punchline.
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