I was listening to Mike Pesca's podcast The Gist on 8/12/15. He had Matthew Dicks, a Moth Grand Slam champion. He talked about a storytelling exercise, which is to put ideas down in text message/twitter length bullets each day. It's supposed to be little kernals of the most story-worthy moment of the last day.
It's an interesting concept that he created to help kickstart ideas for stories from his own life. He said that one of the things that it does, unexpectedly, is to slow time down. He said the act of contemplating and reviewing each day makes time seem different. That in itself is worth the effort.
See: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/08/the_gist_storytelling_with_matthew_dicks_and_male_vocal_fry.html
