Exercise - Where are you?

I am looking at a screen. It is bright and white. I close the Venetian blinds in my bedroom to help with the glare from the screen. It's black border is stark against the white, but marked, painted wall behind it. The screen floats in the air, the silver metal monitor arm allows it to do so. My desk is messy today. A writer's journal workbook book is lying facedown on top of my HP work laptop. My cable clutter is limited but this morning a empty pint glass has a crushed can of Monster Energy and a smart shaker for company. It's not like typically but I've been busy and the guidebooks to Japan indicate as much. The all-white Rubik cube on the all-white desk however hint at something else. Sat besides a wireless keyboard and mouse, it's clearly with easy reach. It's proximity alluding to being a handy toy for focusing a wandering mind.

My feeling about this is that I was able to put aside any feeling of needing to write perfectly. The timer was set and I was keen to describe my setting to some degree, rather then get hung up on what I had written. So, the exercise above combined with the timer allowed me to fear having a blank page, rather than worrying about what would be on it. I found the execise helped kick start my writing for the morning and allowed me to follow suit into my work, unrelated to writing, that day. By focusing on naming I improved my limited ability to describe well. I enjoyed the exercise and can see me attempting it again, perhaps when warming up before a writing session. 

I noticed that more monitor has quite a glare to it. I never notice this at all but in describing the monitor it was quite apparent to me that not only is the screen relatively bright but also that my eyes are sored and fatigued. I was also pleasantly surprised that using the monitor arm, the screen does seem to float. It's isolation away from a stand does make the setup quite pleasing.