Writing “30 Times in 2 Days”

In a 2005 book entitled “The Ball // 30 Times in 2 Days” author Steve Benson ran a writer’s marathon, so to speak. The result is a book you can download from UBUWEB.

Saturday and Sunday, April 23 and 24, 2005, every hour on the hour, when my wristwatch alarm sounded, I wrote five minutes in a brown book Lyn gave me several years ago, as well as I could. This is the transcript, completed two weeks later.

Each entry is short, less than a page, and the lines are short as well. This reminds me of some of Jack Kerouac’s poems, which took the shape of the pocket-sized notebook they were written in. This book is a lucid, enjoyable read, and the method employed to write it sounds like a lot of fun!