“On the red-eye from Seattle, a two-year-old/ in the seat behind me screeches/ his miniature guts out. Instead of dreaming/ of stuffing a wad of duct tape into his mouth,/ I envy him…”

–Jeffery McDaniel, “Air Empathy,” The Endarkenment

Be cathartic. Spend 15 minutes just writing. Write about your day, your feelings, your thoughts. Just let it all out. When you’re done, pick out a couple phrases you really like and see what you can turn them into: a poem, flash fiction, a scene. You don’t have to like it, you don’t even have to be proud of it, the point is to feel better through the act of writing.