- Working title
- Five Things I Pretend Not To Notice About My Body
- Format
- Five Things
- Category
- The Body
- Subject tags
- Body, Health, Getting Older
- Core thought
- The body keeps sending small updates, and most of them are badly timed.
- Real-world trigger
- Noticing a new ache, mark, sound or limitation while doing something ordinary.
- Specific detail to use
- Standing up from a chair and making a noise that was not planned.
- Discomfort or tension
- It is funny because it is ordinary, but it also points at ageing in a way that does not need dressing up.
- Why it fits I Said
- It suits the short, slightly awkward honesty of I Said more than the longer thinking of Monologues.
- Output direction
- Use five separate angles, each blunt and small, without turning them into advice.