What Your Mind Says at the Time

Purpose: Catch the sentence your mind says mid-surge, and answer it on paper instead.

When to use: Use this soon after one, while you still remember the words.

Worksheet prompts

1. Write the exact sentence your mind said. Word for word, even if it is ugly.
2. What made it feel true at the time, and what argues against it now?
3. Write a second sentence to keep next to the first one.
   Not a happy one. A fair one.
4. Right now, how believable is that first sentence?

You do not have to win the argument. You only have to stop taking it as a fact.