Think your life’s too boring to make art about? Zoom in. Boring is just detail nobody has looked at closely.

Boring usually means unexamined. From a distance, most lives look like the same set of rooms and routines, and detail is the only thing separating them. Up close, a shift at work has its own language, a friendship has jokes nobody else could follow, a walk you do daily has three things on it you have never described. Nothing has to be dramatic to be worth writing down.

Choose one ordinary hour from this week and describe it in more detail than seems necessary. Sounds, objects, exact words. See how long you can stay in it before you run out.