Go out for a day and take photos of everything that catches your eye. Photograph breakfast, locking your front door, the sign that welcomes you to a highway. Take a selfie, grab an image of your destination, snap a photo of something in extreme closeup, a detail you might have otherwise ignored.

Once you get home, sort them into favorites and toss the ones that need to find their destiny in the trash.

Reduce the image count to between six and ten, and now start writing what you did and what you were feeling when those images were taken. Or, write an imaginary narrative of what those images could represent and make it all up.

You need to write on the same day while the memories are fresh. Now, do this every day for a month as a writing exercise that will get you used to what it’s like to write every day. Having something to fix on that comes out of our routine and trying to find a way to explain things with a slight twist to avoid the same story over the course of that month just might be the thing to show you that a writing habit isn’t all that difficult and starts you thinking differently about each day.