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Rec'd on 🧠 5/15: WHAT RANDOM INTEREST OF YOURS HAS HELPED YOU MEET SOMEONE NEW?

Taking cc classes/any sort of workshop for a hobby is an excellent way to meet friends. I found my writers group thru a creative writing class

@myguardianangelsaid

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@mouse

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writing exercises w/ a friend

For example: Give yourselves one hour to write a short story. That's what my pal and I have been doing since 2020. For awhile, we did it every Wednesday. There were periods of burnout where we did it just once every few weeks/month. At other times, we've done challenges were we did it everyday for a month (that's our practice this month of Feb). We usually audio record what we've written and share it with each other via Whatsapp (he lives in the UK). It's a beautiful, sometimes daunting, practice. I've amassed a google doc with 100,000+ words just by showing up to do this. It's never about quality, more just a method of working things out. :-)