Writing Hormesis and Writing Mimesis

Writing Hormesis and Writing Mimesis

Hormesis: After exercising and taking a shower, my thoughts would be fuller and smoother. Funnily, I give a speech about what I am going to write during the shower, it provides me a better sense of what might be missing from the story and the tone I want to set it as. Particularly, it will be more emotional with the hormesis technique because most of the ideas that happen in the shower happen to be personal and secrets even. Most of the time shower will be the last thing I do before I go to bed, so it’s a time for me to reflect on my day as well, more details are reflected on when I’m writing with this technique for sure.

Mimesis: I often use this technique unintentionally, especially if I am reading an interesting book. I would consider this and “Hypoxic Writing” the best way that suits me as I always had a hard time starting to write. I copy the format of “The Fifth Story” for this practice and every time I rewrite the beginning of my story, it becomes more and more detailed. From previous experience, it would also be helpful to “imitate” a story’s writing style that has the same tone that I wish to set my story as.